Plant Shutdown Puts Nuclear Industry Back in Spotlight

By 2020, South Korea will be home to the largest cluster of nuclear reactors in the world, just a short drive away from Busan. But in a country where fears about Japanese seafood still linger after the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the booming nuclear industry — which produces roughly 30 percent of the country’s energy, with 25 plants and counting — is starting to raise eyebrows. The Kori-Shin Kori complex sits on the southeast coast in South Gyeongsang Province, within a uranium pellet’s throw