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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the recent revision to an atomic energy pact with the U.S. allows South Korea’s study of pyroprocessing, the nascent technology will likely increase electricity costs while failing to reduce ...

Such an increase would be even higher if it were not for the country’s 20 nuclear reactors, which generated a little more than one-third of the country’s total electricity in 2008. According to that ...

Concerns have been raised that South Korea's inclusion on the sensitive country list designated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may complicate the approval for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun has announced a basic agreement with the U.S. on easing restrictions on Korea in uranium enrichment and the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. He said this in an ...

South Korea's top envoy to the United States said Friday that Seoul will push for diplomatic efforts to secure a facility to reprocess spent nuclear fuel after a new U.S. administration is inaugurated ...