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TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
| Fossil fuels | Nuclear | Renewable** | ||||
| Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro | Other renewables | |
| Total amount in specific units* | 1326 | 0.050 | 0.774 | — | 0.002105 | 0.061660 |
TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2018 | Compound annual growth rate (%) 2000 to 2018 |
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| Final Energy Consumption (EJ) | ||||||
| Total | 6.28 | 7.17 | 8.16 | 9.00 | 9.74 | 2.47% |
| Heat and Other | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 4.73% |
| Electricity | 0.86 | 1.20 | 1.56 | 1.74 | 1.89 | 4.47% |
| Natural Gas | 0.53 | 0.75 | 0.88 | 0.91 | 1.05 | 3.89% |
| Coal/Lignite/Peat | 0.82 | 0.93 | 1.18 | 1.46 | 1.36 | 2.82% |
| Oil | 3.93 | 4.06 | 4.21 | 4.47 | 4.89 | 1.22% |
| Bioenergy and Waste | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.22 | 0.32 | 0.38 | 8.41% |
TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2018 | Annual av. growth rate 2000–2018 (%) | |
| Electricity production (TW·h) | ||||||
| Nuclear | 108.96 | 146.78 | 148.59 | 164.76 | 133.51 | 1.34 |
| Hydro | 5.61 | 5.19 | 6.74 | 5.79 | 7.27 | 2.69 |
| Geothermal | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wind | — | — | 0.81 | 1.34 | 2.53 | 16.08 |
| Solar | — | — | 1.07 | 3.48 | 7.70 | 38.49 |
| Natural Gas | 28.49 | 58.25 | 96.19 | 100.75 | 152.87 | 10.88 |
| Coal/Lignite/Peat | 99.43 | 134.89 | 198.29 | 207.33 | 241.81 | 5.15 |
| Oil | 19.18 | 16.11 | 11.71 | 9.54 | 7.12 | -0.29 |
| Bioenergy and Waste | — | — | 2.41 | 10.29 | 13.25 | 27.13 |
| Other | 4.73 | 3.42 | 157.70 | 207.00 | 138.10 | 18.09 |
| Total* | 266.40 | 364.64 | 474.92 | 545.52 | 570.65 | 4.35 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2018 | |
| Nuclear/total electricity (%) | 40.90 | 40.25 | 31.14 | 31.20 | 23.40 |
TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2019
| Reactor Unit | Type | Net Capacity [MW(e)] |
Status | Operator | Reactor Supplier |
Construction Date |
First Criticality Date |
First Grid Date |
Commercial Date |
Shutdown Date |
UCF for 2019 |
| HANBIT-1 | PWR | 995 | Operational | KHNP | WH | 1981-06-04 | 1986-01-31 | 1986-03-05 | 1986-08-25 | 16.6 | |
| HANBIT-2 | PWR | 988 | Operational | KHNP | WH | 1981-12-01 | 1986-10-15 | 1986-11-11 | 1987-06-10 | 87.1 | |
| HANBIT-3 | PWR | 986 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKAEC | 1989-12-23 | 1994-10-13 | 1994-10-30 | 1995-03-31 | 0.0 | |
| HANBIT-4 | PWR | 970 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKAEC | 1990-05-26 | 1995-07-07 | 1995-07-18 | 1996-01-01 | 0.0 | |
| HANBIT-5 | PWR | 992 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 1997-06-29 | 2001-11-24 | 2001-12-19 | 2002-05-21 | 99.3 | |
| HANBIT-6 | PWR | 993 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 1997-11-20 | 2002-09-01 | 2002-09-16 | 2002-12-24 | 73.0 | |
| HANUL-1 | PWR | 966 | Operational | KHNP | FRAM | 1983-01-26 | 1988-02-25 | 1988-04-07 | 1988-09-10 | 83.3 | |
| HANUL-2 | PWR | 967 | Operational | KHNP | FRAM | 1983-07-05 | 1989-02-25 | 1989-04-14 | 1989-09-30 | 78.4 | |
| HANUL-3 | PWR | 997 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 1993-07-21 | 1997-12-21 | 1998-01-06 | 1998-08-11 | 75.8 | |
| HANUL-4 | PWR | 999 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 1993-11-01 | 1998-12-14 | 1998-12-28 | 1999-12-31 | 95.5 | |
| HANUL-5 | PWR | 998 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 1999-10-01 | 2003-11-28 | 2003-12-18 | 2004-07-29 | 74.5 | |
| HANUL-6 | PWR | 997 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2000-09-29 | 2004-12-16 | 2005-01-07 | 2005-04-22 | 77.2 | |
| KORI-2 | PWR | 640 | Operational | KHNP | WH | 1977-12-23 | 1983-04-09 | 1983-04-22 | 1983-07-25 | 100.0 | |
| KORI-3 | PWR | 1011 | Operational | KHNP | WH | 1979-10-01 | 1985-01-01 | 1985-01-22 | 1985-09-30 | 67.9 | |
| KORI-4 | PWR | 1012 | Operational | KHNP | WH | 1980-04-01 | 1985-10-26 | 1985-12-31 | 1986-04-29 | 51.0 | |
| SHIN-KORI-1 | PWR | 996 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2006-06-16 | 2010-07-15 | 2010-08-04 | 2011-02-28 | 74.7 | |
| SHIN-KORI-2 | PWR | 996 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2007-06-05 | 2011-12-27 | 2012-01-28 | 2012-07-20 | 79.2 | |
| SHIN-KORI-3 | PWR | 1416 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2008-10-16 | 2015-12-29 | 2016-01-15 | 2016-12-20 | 88.4 | |
| SHIN-KORI-4 | PWR | 1418 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2009-08-19 | 2019-04-08 | 2019-04-22 | 2019-08-29 | 100.0 | |
| SHIN-WOLSONG-1 | PWR | 997 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2007-11-20 | 2012-01-06 | 2012-01-27 | 2012-07-31 | 85.1 | |
| SHIN-WOLSONG-2 | PWR | 993 | Operational | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2008-09-23 | 2015-02-08 | 2015-02-26 | 2015-07-24 | 74.9 | |
| WOLSONG-2 | PHWR | 606 | Operational | KHNP | AECL/DHI | 1992-09-25 | 1997-01-29 | 1997-04-01 | 1997-07-01 | 90.3 | |
| WOLSONG-3 | PHWR | 630 | Operational | KHNP | AECL/DHI | 1994-03-17 | 1998-02-19 | 1998-03-25 | 1998-07-01 | 59.1 | |
| WOLSONG-4 | PHWR | 609 | Operational | KHNP | AECL/DHI | 1994-07-22 | 1999-04-10 | 1999-05-21 | 1999-10-01 | 83.3 | |
| SHIN-HANUL-1 | PWR | 1340 | Under Construction | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2012-07-10 | |||||
| SHIN-HANUL-2 | PWR | 1340 | Under Construction | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2013-06-19 | |||||
| SHIN-KORI-5 | PWR | 1340 | Under Construction | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2017-04-01 | |||||
| SHIN-KORI-6 | PWR | 1340 | Under Construction | KHNP | DHICKOPC | 2018-09-20 | |||||
| KORI-1 | PWR | 576 | Permanent Shutdown | KHNP | WH | 1972-08-01 | 1977-06-19 | 1977-06-26 | 1978-04-29 | 2017-06-18 | |
| WOLSONG-1 | PHWR | 661 | Permanent Shutdown | KHNP | AECL | 1977-10-30 | 1982-11-21 | 1982-12-31 | 1983-04-22 | 2019-12-24 | 0.0 |
| Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). | |||||||||||
| Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report. |
TABLE 6. STATUS OF DECOMMISIONING PROCESS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
| Reactor unit | Shutdown date | Shutdown reason | Decom. strategy | Decom. phase | Management phase | Decom. licensee |
| Kori-1 | 18-June-2017 | Termination of continued operation | Dismantling | Planning | Wet Storage on-site | KHNP |
| Wolsong-1 | 24-Dec-2019 | Economic | Dismantling | Planning | Wet & Dry Storage on-site | KHNP |
TABLE 7. UNDER CONSTRUCTION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
| Station/project name | Type | Capacity (MW) | Construction start year | Expected commercial year |
| Shin Hanul-1 | PWR | 1400 | 2012 | 2020 |
| Shin Hanul-2 | PWR | 1400 | 2013 | 2021 |
| Shin Kori-5 | PWR | 1400 | 2017 | 2023 |
| Shin Kori-6 | PWR | 1400 | 2018 | 2024 |