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South Korea Starts Building Two New Reactors

14:55 04/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti)

South Korea started on Friday construction work on two nuclear reactors in what President Lee Myung-bak described as a "big milestone" in the country's atomic industry, Yonhap news agency reported.

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