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Jungmin Kang

Jungmin Kang is an independent consultant and South Korea’s member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a former chairman of South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission. He is a coauthor of the book Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare (Springer, 2019).


Articles by Jungmin Kang

Some fuels never learn. US Energy Department returns to costly and risky plutonium separation technologies

By Jungmin Kang, Masafumi Takubo, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons
The Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Could an attack on Ukrainian nuclear facilities cause a disaster greater than Chernobyl? Possibly, simulations show.

By Jungmin Kang, Eva Lisowski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Idaho National Laboratory’s Fuel Conditioning Facility supports work to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a nuclear recycling technique called pyroprocessing. Photo Credit: Fuel Conditioning Fact Sheet, Idaho National Laboratory.

Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger

By Frank N. von Hippel, Jungmin Kang | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Three Mile Island

Better nuclear fuel could reduce the likelihood and severity of nuclear power plant accidents

By Jungmin Kang | Uncategorized
South Korean submarine

South Korea’s risky quest to build nuclear-powered attack submarines

By Seoc Woo Kim, Jungmin Kang, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Urgent necessity: Direct dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang

By Elisabeth Suh, Jungmin Kang | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Reprocessing policy and South Korea’s new government

By Jungmin Kang, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

A nuclear South Korea would be a mistake

By Jungmin Kang | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Hot potato in South Korea: The spent nuclear fuel storage dilemma

By Jungmin Kang, Seoc Woo Kim, Byong-Chul Lee | Nuclear Energy

Where nuclear safety and security meet

By Duyeon Kim, Jungmin Kang | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Five steps to prevent another Fukushima

By Jungmin Kang | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

South Korea in focus: The politics of spent fuel storage and disposal

By Jungmin Kang | Uncategorized