ON A vast building site on the southern coast of South Korea near its industrial heartland, the foundations of the country’s newest nuclear-power project are swaddled in protective tarpaulins. Ten cranes tower overhead but nobody sits in their cabins. The only movement is the whirl of a few fans. Work on the two reactors stopped suddenly in July, after Moon Jae-in, the country’s left-leaning anti-nuclear president, ordered a pause to the project to give a citizen-jury time to consider its merits. “I was a little worried,” admits Ahn Seong-Shik, the civil engineer in charge of building the reactor shells. “But I trusted the Korean people.”
Mr Ahn’s faith paid off on October 20th, after the jury endorsed the construction of the two reactors, Shin Kori 5 and 6. “It was a very smart decision,” he says. Mr Moon, who has promised to phase out nuclear power, accepted the verdict. It is an unexpected reprieve for a project that Mr Moon had pledged to scrap before he...Continue reading
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