Hong Joon-pyo: "Install 'Iron Dome' at Shin-Gori Nuclear Plant to Block North Korean Missile Threat"

"World's Best Nuclear Technology, but President Moon's 'Pandora' Report Made the Country Strange"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] Hong Joon-pyo, a presidential candidate from the People Power Party, promised to install an 'Iron Dome' to block North Korea's missile attacks in relation to Shin-Kori Units 5 and 6.

On the 2nd, visiting Shin-Kori Units 5 and 6 at the Saeul Headquarters in Ulju-gun, Ulsan Metropolitan City, Hong said regarding the threat of North Korea to the nuclear power plant, "We must install an Iron Dome to prepare for North Korean provocations even if the probability is one in a thousand," adding, "The Iron Dome can dispel concerns about nuclear leakage that residents of Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam worry about."

He strongly criticized the Moon Jae-in administration's nuclear power policy. Hong stated, "It is not solar power," and added, "The whole country has been made strange. It is unacceptable that the president decided to halt nuclear power after watching the movie 'Pandora.'"

He continued, "(Our country) has long been a nuclear power nation and was at the world’s highest level," and criticized, "Seeing the government declare nuclear phase-out and the domestic nuclear industry become devastated, then going to the Czech Republic to sell nuclear technology, I wondered if they were in their right mind." Hong said, "When the administration changes, nuclear power must be restored to its rightful place," and "Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) must firmly play the central role in South Korea’s energy."

Regarding nuclear power, he stated, "We will quickly complete research on pyroprocessing to develop small modular reactors, build clean reactors across the country, and realize carbon neutrality," and added, "We can also handle the issue of nuclear fuel rods in nuclear waste, which are 90% full."

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