Page added on November 23, 2005
We are living in a civilized society and electrical energy is the basis of it. Electricity generation burns up enormous amounts of fossil fuels, coal and oil.
The Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. is now operating 19 nuclear power plants commercially and its total generation capacity is 16,716 MW of electricity. It is the sixth largest nuclear power generating country in the world, accounting for 40 percent of the total national electrical capacity. In addition, it is now busy building another reactor with another eight more planned, so as to reach a total of 28 reactors reaching 30,900 MW by 2015, out of a total electricity figure standing at 86,338 MW. Even then national electricity will be heavily reliant on fossil fuels.
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