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President Yoon Seok-yeol criticized the Moon Jae-in government's nuclear-free policy as 'stupid' and declared abolition of the policy.

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



Correspondent Kim Ki-tae.



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President Yun Seok-yeol visited a nuclear power plant facility 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.



[Kim Jong-doo / Managing Director, Doosan Energy: (How many % of the process has progressed?) This is about 9.5% of the process now, if you look at the overall process.

(Then, when did it stop?) It has stopped since 2017.]



President Yoon strongly criticized the nuclear phase-out policy, saying, "I wonder if those involved in the 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 be no competitors now.]



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



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: I, too, and high-ranking officials of our government will run in every direction to sell nuclear power plants.]



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