South Korea’s incoming government will reverse the country’s nuclear phaseout plan, which had been criticised for intensifying the east Asian country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Won Hee-ryong, policy chief on President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition committee, said that outgoing president Moon Jae-in’s push to reduce the share of nuclear power in South Korea’s energy mix had increased greenhouse gas emissions and threatened to increase energy bills.
“Carbon neutrality, which the country already promised to the international community, is the path for us to take,” Won said. “But our tentative conclusion is that the Yoon administration needs to set new plans that are honest, realistic and responsible.”
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