Kori Nuclear Power Plant
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The Kori Nuclear Power Plant (Korean
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: 고리원자력발전소, Hanja
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: 古里原子力發電所) is a South Korean
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 nuclear power
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 plant located in Gori, a suburban village in Busan
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. It is owned and operated by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power is a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation . It operates large nuclear and hydroelectric plants in South Korea, which are responsible for about 40% of the country's electric power supply...

, a subsidiary of KEPCO
Korea Electric Power
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. The first reactor began commercial operation in 1978.

An expansion of the plant begun in 2006 added four new Korean-sourced reactors, the so-called Shin Kori reactors. The first pair of Shin Kori reactors are of the OPR-1000 design, while the second two are the APR-1400 design. By November 2010 the first was online and the rest undergoing trials or construction. Two further APR-1400 reactors are in planning.

Breakdown by reactor

So far, all reactors on site are pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactor
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s.
Name Net Electric Output First Criticality Commercial Start Reactor Supplier NSSS supplier Architecture Construction
Kori 1   556 MWe  06/1977 04/1978 Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a nuclear power company, offering a wide range of nuclear products and services to utilities throughout the world, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control and advanced nuclear plant designs...

 
GEC Turbines (Rugby) Gilbert  Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC is a nuclear power company, offering a wide range of nuclear products and services to utilities throughout the world, including nuclear fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control and advanced nuclear plant designs...

Kori 2   605 MWe 04/1983 07/1983 Westinghouse GEC Turbines (Rugby) Gilbert Westinghouse
Kori 3   895 MWe 01/1985 09/1985 Westinghouse GEC Turbines (Rugby) Bechtel
Bechtel
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Hyundai
Hyundai
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Kori 4   895 MWe 10/1985 04/1986 Westinghouse GEC Turbines (Rugby) Bechtel Hyundai
Shin Kori 1   960 MWe 06/2010 02/2011 KHNP/KEPCO
Korea Electric Power
Korea Electric Power Corporation, better known as KEPCO, is the largest electric utility in South Korea,...

 
Doosan  KOPEC
Kopec
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Hyundai
Shin Kori 2   960 MWe 2011 KHNP/KEPCO Doosan KOPEC Hyundai
Shin Kori 3 1,340 MWe  2013 KHNP/KEPCO Doosan KOPEC Hyundai
Shin Kori 4 1,340 MWe  2014 KHNP/KEPCO Doosan KOPEC Hyundai


(NSSS = nuclear steam supply system)

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