Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) held the “Team Korea Project Promotion Strategy Meeting for the Czech New Nuclear Power Project” to implement the new nuclear power project in the Czech Republic at its headquarters in Gyeongju on July 23.
The meeting came after KHNP struck a contract on the project in June.
The meeting was attended by project managers and staff from major participating organizations, including KHNP, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), Doosan Enerbility, KEPCO NF, Daewoo E&C, and KEPCO KPS.
They agreed to build up a cooperative regime focused on execution from the initial stages and discussed practical ways to implement the contract.
Hong Hyun-soo, head of KHNP’s Czech nuclear power project department, and working-level officials of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power attend the “Team Korea Project Promotion Strategy Project” at KHNP headquarters in Gyeongju on July 23.
In particular, they shared communications plans with Dukovany II Nuclear Power Plant (EDUII), the subsidiary of Czech Power Company (ČEZ).
They also exchanged opinions on key implementation strategies, including business management procedures, design, and permit schedules, and reviewed step-by-step implementation plans linked to the roles of each team member.
Hong Hyun-soo, head of KHNP’s Czech nuclear power project department, said, “This strategy meeting is significant as a starting point for the practical implementation of the project following the contract signing.”
He added, “To ensure the success of the Czech project, ‘Team Korea’ will work as one body to create a model case for entering the global nuclear power market.”
KHNP Aims to Complete Full-Cycle Nuclear Power Technology Ranging from Nuclear Unit Construction to Environmental Restoration
As Korea Hydro & Nuclear Powe recently obtained a go-ahead on a plan to decommission Korea Nuclear Power Unit Ⅰ, the decommission plan is not a simple development of a document, but rather it is evaluated to have established standards on the technologies related to the decommissioning of nuclear power units.
KHNP said on July 7 that the completion of the decommission plan has laid a groundwork for projects to decommission nuclear power units by establishing systematical writing methods on detailed technology elements, such as decommission cost evaluation, radiation exposure dose evaluation, safety evaluation, radwaste amount and characteristic evaluation according to domestic conditions.
KHNP plans to apply such outcomes of the decommission plan to the writing of a plan to decommission the follow-up Wolsong Nuclear Power Unit and continue to evolve more refined evaluation systems.
In 2016, KHNP began to write a plan to decommission the Kori Nuclear Power Unit Ⅰ based on outcomes of research tasks, implemented by KHNP Central Research Institute and completed the writing of a draft decommission plan, reflecting neighborhood residents’ opinions in May 2021 before the demission plant was presented to regulatory institutions.
Meanwhile, KHNP Central Research Institute has already secured 58 technologies related to the decommissioning of nuclear power units.
It has been upgrading related technologies, by keeping on studying seven key technologies, such as intermediate-level waste transport containers, and segmentation and decontamination of highly activated equipment, thus coming closer to safety-oriented decommission.
President Shin Ho-chul of KHNP Central Research Institute said, “The go-ahead to the decommission plan means a ‘step ahead’ toward the building of the ecosystem of the domestic decommission industry and exploration of the global decommission market, and we will make efforts to raise decommission capabilities in the future.”
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