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President Yoon Seok-yeol criticized the Moon Jae-in administration's nuclear-free policy as a fool's errand and declared that the policy was abolished.

The government announced that it would supply an additional 1 trillion won worth of nuclear power plant work by 2025.



This is reporter Kim Ki-tae's report.



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President Yun Seok-yeol visited a nuclear power plant company in Changwon, Gyeongnam.



Various questions were poured out in front of the nuclear reactors and steam generators for Shin-Hanul Units 3 and 4, which were suspended after the Moon Jae-in government's nuclear phase-out policy.



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: What percentage of the process has progressed?]



[Jong-Doo Kim / Executive Director, Doosan Energy: This is about 9.5% of the process now, in terms of the entire process.]



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: Then when did it stop?]



[Jong-Doo Kim / Executive Vice President of Doosan Energy: It has been stopped since 2017.]



President Yoon strongly criticized the nuclear phase-out policy, saying, "I wonder if the officials who promoted nuclear phase out would have made such a decision if they had visited the site."



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: If we had not acted stupidly over the past five years and had built this nuclear power plant ecosystem more firmly, I am sure there would probably be no competitors now.]



Nuclear industry sales will reach 22.2 trillion won in 2020 As a result, the number of nuclear-related personnel decreased by 14.9% during the same period.



President Yoon diagnosed the size of the global nuclear power plant market as reaching 1,000 trillion won and promised export support, saying, "I will talk a lot about nuclear power when I meet foreign leaders in the future."



[President Yoon Seok-yeol: I, too, and high-ranking officials of the Korean government will go all-out to sell nuclear power plants.]



The government has given 92.5 billion won worth of work to a nuclear power plant supplier in relation to the design for the resumption of construction of Shin-Hanul Units 3 and 4, etc. announced that it will supply urgently within this year, and that it will place an additional order for nuclear power plant work worth 1 trillion won by 2025.



(Video coverage: Joo Beom and Choi Dae-woong, video editing: Park Soo-sun)