Seoul touts strategic value of trilateral SMR partnership

South Korea views its new small modular reactor partnership with the US and Japan as more than an industrial alliance, seeing it as both a strategic response to the growing influence of China and Russia in the global nuclear market and a potential catalyst for broader nuclear cooperation with Washington, a Seoul official indicated Monday. The three countries signed a memorandum of cooperation on SMR deployment on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 7 to jointly support th

By The Korea Herald