President Yoon said, "The nuclear power plant ecosystem is fully normalized"...Backed up by work/institution

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An event was held to mark the completion and new construction of the first nuclear power plant since President Yoon Suk Yeol declared that he would leave the nuclear power plant when he was a presidential candidate.President Yun

emphasized 'Team Korea''s expansion of exports to the nuclear power industry and said he would speed up the full normalization of the nuclear power plant ecosystem.

Reporter Cho Yong-sung reports.

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The nuclear power plant ecosystem, which was virtually completely frozen in 2017 due to the Moon Jae In government's denuclearization policy.

[Moon Jae In / Then-President (June 2017): We will completely scrap the plan to build a new nuclear power plant.]

Seven years later, a ceremony was held in Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do to announce the completion of Shin Hanul Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2 and the construction of Units 3 and 4.

This is the place where President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to dismantle the nuclear power plant when he was a presidential candidate.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President: I promised the people that if I were elected president, I would immediately restore the nuclear power plant ecosystem and immediately resume the construction of Shin Hanul Units 3 and 4]President Yun

said in a congratulatory speech that he will step up the full normalization of the nuclear power plant ecosystem.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. has been selected as the preferred bidder for the construction of a new nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic for the first time in 15 years, and is about to sign a final contract in March next year.President Yun

emphasized that he would open up the export path of the 'Team Korea' nuclear power plant even further based on the Czech nuclear power plant order, and that he would take care of the contract until the end.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President] We're in the midst of a nuclear renaissance. The global nuclear power plant market of 1,000 trillion won is opening as countries around the world scramble to build nuclear power plants.

A vision for sustainable development beyond the normalization of the nuclear power plant ecosystem was also presented.

It said it will build new nuclear power plants such as small module reactors (SMR) to create many quality jobs and lay a solid institutional foundation to prevent the future of the nuclear power industry from collapsing again due to politics.

In addition, the government plans to establish a manpower training system to nurture nuclear power plant talents and increase investment in technology development to create conditions that can lead the nuclear power plant renaissance.

I'm YTN's Cho Yong Sung.

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