The government plans to build ten more power-generating nuclear reactors over the next ten years to meet its growing electricity demand.
If the plan goes smoothly, South Korea will have 24 nuclear power plants by Two-thousand-eleven and will be able to meet nearly 40 percent of its electricity needs with nuclear power.
South Korea now gets about 41 percent of its electricity from nuclear generation.
The Ministry of Science and Technology said all but two of the new reactors will have a generating capacity of one million kilowatts each. The other two will have a one point four million-kilowatt capacity each.