South Korea's state-run nuclear operator Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) will resume again the construction of the Shin Kori-5 and Shin Kori-6 stalled nuclear units (southeastern city of Ulsan, South Korea) after an independent panel recommended completion of the project. After a three-month break, the construction works will restart by end-November 2017 and the damages incurred by the break will be compensated to the project's local contractors.
The construction was put temporarily on hold following the July 2017 South Korean government decision to temporarily suspend the construction of the facilities and form a public debate committee to determine whether or not the construction will be completely stopped. Now that a state commission voted in favor of their construction plan, the project can move forward again and the plants will be completed.
The Shin Kori facility is composed of the Shin Kori-1 and Shin Kori-2, two operational OPR-1000 reactors (950 MW net, 1,000 MW gross) that have been commissioned in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The Shin Kori-3 unit is the first Korean-designed Advanced Pressurized Reactor-1400 (APR-1400, rated 1,340 MW net) and was commissioned in December 2016.
The Shin Kori-5 and 6 APR-1400 units were approved by South Korea's nuclear regulator in June 2016. They will have an installed capacity of 1,400 MW and were scheduled to come onstream respectively in March 2021 and 2022.
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