Anchor: The government has decided to suspend construction of the Shin Kori-5 and 6 nuclear reactors for up to three months. A decision on whether their construction should be fully suspended will be made through a deliberative poll. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has more.
 
Report: President Moon Jae-in decided during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday to temporarily suspend the construction of the Shin Kori-5 and 6 nuclear reactors.
 
With the decision, the government will set up a deliberative committee, which will select a citizens’ jury who will make a final decision on the destiny of the two reactors.
 
The government believes that it will take roughly three months for a final decision to come out.
 
The government plans to implement the deliberative poll method in which a final decision is produced through a debate by a citizens’ jury which has been provided with views and claims supporting or opposing the issue.
 
Ground was broken for the two reactors in June of last year. As of the end of May, the rate of progress of work stood at 28-point-eight percent.
 
A consortium made up of Samsung C&T Corporation, Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction and Hanwha Engineering and Construction Corporation has been carrying out the construction work.
 
Financial losses that would result from a full suspension of the reactors’ construction are estimated to stand at around two-point-six trillion won.
 
A government official said that additional maintenance fees are expected to emerge with the temporary suspension of the reactors’ construction. The official said the government will take compensation steps in line with contracts the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company has clinched with related firms.

President Moon vowed to scrap a nuclear-centered energy policy in a ceremony held in Gijang County northeast of Busan to mark the permanent shutdown of the Kori-1 nuclear reactor on June 19th.

The president also said he will work to gain social consensus on whether to shut down the country’s second-oldest nuclear reactor, the Wolseong-1, and to halt the construction of the Shin Kori-5 and 6 reactors. 
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.