Hurry someone forgot to give South Korea the "nuclear is dead" memo.

[Statistical]

South Korea, which is heavily dependent on oil and gas imports, plans to add about 18 nuclear power reactors by 2030 to its existing 20 reactors to reduce its energy imports and carbon emissions.

LOCAL NUCLEAR REACTORS IN OPERATION
Asia's fourth-largest economy has been running 16 pressurized water reactors and 4 pressurized heavy water reactors since the country started nuclear power generation about 30 years ago. Nuclear power reactors accounted for 26 percent, or 17,716 MW, of South Korea's total power generation facilities of 68,268 MW in 2007. Nuclear accounted for 36 percent, or 142.9 billion KW/hour of total power generation of 403.1 billion KW/hour.

The world's No.6 nuclear power generator -- after the United States, France, Japan, Russia and Germany -- has no record of nuclear accidents, and its 2008 reactor utilization rate of 93.3 percent was the highest in the world. Globally, the average utilisation rate was 79.4 percent.

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It is building 6 nuclear power reactors with combined capacity of 6,800 MW, and preparing to construct two reactors with a combined 2,800 MW -- all to be ready by 2016. By 2022, it plans to add 4 more with a total capacity of 5,600 MW, and another 6 by 2030.

By 2030, South Korea predicts total power generation facilities of 105,195 MW, with nuclear accounting for 41 percent, or 42,716 mega watts. Nuclear power generation will account for 59 percent, or 333.6 billion KW/hour of total power generation of 565.2 billion KW/hr by 2030.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE64602320100513?type=marketsNews

In operation - 20 reactors (with 93.3% capacity factor and no accidents - impossible according to Kris)
Under construction now - 6 more
Planning to build - 2 more
Building by 2022 - 4 more
Build by 2030 - 6 more

Yup sure looks dead to me.

What do the Koreans know about nuclear power anyways?
I mean they only have the best international safety record and higher capacity factor. They have gone from nuclear importer to nuclear self sufficient to nuclear exporter in 30 years.