Busan Biennale 2026 opens with ‘Dissident Chorus,’ 46 artists and teams from 22 countries, and a deeper question shaped by 45 years of tension between local agency and international circulation.
Korea’s i-SMR gives up some of the economies of scale that made conventional reactors large and tries to recover them through standardized manufacturing and repeated deployment. Gijang will be the first place where that proposition meets the real world.
The U.S. once constrained South Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle over real proliferation risks. As Seoul seeks greater uranium-enrichment latitude, those old rules now face a different Korea, a different fuel market and a changing American nuclear policy.
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