The United States is unlikely to allow South Korea to use the "pyroprocessing" technology to recycle spent nuclear fuel even after a joint study is completed in 2021 because the technology will make ...

Ryu Jae-soo, Head of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Technology Development Division at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, explains the pyroprocessing process on the 14th. Photo by ...

A spent nuclear fuel reprocessing technology, developed by the government over 20 years at a cost of about 680 billion won, is at risk of being abandoned. The original plan was to conduct the initial ...

Wi Sung-lac, head of the presidential Office of National Security, said in a KBS interview on the 26th that discussions between Korea and the United States are underway to give Korea more authority ...

South Korea has elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, a liberal who will lead a country that faces an array of daunting economic challenges. One of the first orders of business for South Korea’s new ...

A new fact sheet outlining Korea-U.S. cooperation across economic and security fields was released recently. It includes agreements on uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing, and nuclear-powered ...