South Korea's New Hanul Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 receives operation permit...starting full-scale operation

South Korea's Nuclear Safety Commission held its 183rd Nuclear Safety Commission meeting on the 7th, and announced that it had approved a proposal to permit the operation of Shin Haneul Unit 2 (Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province). The committee said, “New Haneul No. 2
We decided to approve the operation of the reactor because it satisfies the license criteria under Article 21 of the Nuclear Safety Law." New Haneul Unit 2, whose construction began in 2010, is a nuclear power plant independently developed by South Korea (APR
1400), and the power generation capacity is 1400MW class. The design life is said to be 60 years. On December 1, 2014, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (Hansuwon), the operator, obtained an operating permit along with the new Haneul Unit 1.
applied. The plant was completed in August last year, leaving only the commission's operating permit. KHNP will fill the new Haneul Unit 2 with fuel and conduct a commissioning test for about six months. the exam
If successful, the project will receive a notification from the committee that it has passed the pre-use inspection, and will begin commercial operations after going through the business start-up procedures at the Ministry of Industry. According to Hansuwon, the new Haneul No. 2 unit will generate as much power as South Korea annually.
It is expected to account for approximately 1.81% of electricity consumption.