South Korea is on track to restart operations at eight nuclear power plants, that were shut for maintenance, and start a newly built plant over the next two months, in a move that will dampen demand for gas-fired power generation and put pressure on LNG imports. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The nuclear restarts come very close to North Asia’s procurement period for winter LNG, amid high inventories at South Korea’s gas storage facilities, and when LNG demand for power production has suffered from the economic slowdown and the coronavirus pandemic this year. Some of these nine reactors are restarting from an extended maintenance of two […]