Operational failure
Nuclear Power Plant
Wolsong — permanent reactor closure
24 December 2019
Gyeongju, South Korea
Incident location
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35.7100, 129.4800
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What happened
Unit 1 permanently ceased commercial operation. This is a reactor closure, not a nuclear accident or an unplanned outage.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Current temperature
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- Latitude
- 35.7100°
- Longitude
- 129.4800°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.