DAEJEON < invest Korea

According to Yonhap News,

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) will hold the "2024 KAERI Global Forum" by inviting nuclear experts from four countries, including Korea, the United States, Japan, and Canada, at the Onoma Hotel in Daejeon on August 20-21.

The forum, which was initiated in 2012, is held again in Daejeon 11 years after it was held here in 2013.

On the previous day, participants visited the KAERI headquarters in Daejeon and toured the PyRoprocess Integrated inactive DEmonstration facility (PRIDE), the Sodium Test Loop for Safety Simulation and Assessment (STELLA), and the KAERI Underground Research Tunnel (KURT).

At the forum on August 20, Steven Nesbit, former president of the American Nuclear Soceity (ANS), Lim Chae-young, the Senior Vice President for Nuclear Policy and Strategy at the KAERI, and Reiko Fujita, former president of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, presented "changes in the global nuclear environment after the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)" and "prospects and major issues of nuclear power technologies in the future energy market".

Key figures, including Marcia Burkey, vice president of TerraPower, and Usha Menon, director of CANDU Owners Group, then presented and discussed nuclear power support policies and strategies by country and the current status and future prospects of nuclear technologies.

They are also planned to tour nuclear power facilities in Korea including Doosan Enerbility plants and the Munmu Daewang Science Research Institute of the KAERI, which will conduct research of Shinwolseong Nuclear Power Plant 2 and Small Modular Reactor (SMR) on August 21.

jyoung@yna.co.kr

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Source: Yonhap News, (August 20, 2024)