South Korea Weighs Shorter Nuclear Build Times to Meet AI Power Demand

South Korea's government has begun studying ways to shorten the construction time of nuclear power plants in order to meet surging electricity demand driven by AI data centers and related uses. Kang Hoon-sik, a senior presidential secretary, told reporters that building a nuclear plant typically takes nine to ten years, and that the government will look at ways to compress that timeline, with details to be included in its forthcoming long-term electricity supply and demand plan (Bloomberg).