South Korea has 18 operable nuclear power plants and several more under construction.

Under the Atomic Energy Act, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is the highest decision-making body on policy issues.

Spent fuel and L/ILW is currently stored on site at the power plants. It had been planned to co-locate a spent fuel storage facility with a L/ILW repository but that has now been changed due to intense difficulties finding a candidate site.....

In March 2005 a special Bill was passed authorising payments totalling 300 billion won ($300 million) to encourage communities to volunteer for development of a repository. It also allowed MOCIE to hold referenda in volunteer communities and to designate a site itself, if no communities came forward. Any site must be approved by the special Expert Task Force....

In the event, 1 county and 3 cities eventually formally applied within the deadline at the end of August 2005.... The area selected for the site is only sparsely populated and is slightly inland........

A new Energy Act was passed in February 2006.........

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