The government says it will inject three-point-four billion won by 2011 to draw up draft international standards for atomic power technology.

The Korean Agency for Standards and Technology, an affiliate of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, said that the plan comes amid rapid expansion in the global atomic power generation market.

The government plans to adopt some one-hundred-50 international standards at the domestic level by next year before introducing 50 more international standards by 2010.

It also plans to present by 2011 ten domestically-developed standards for adoption at the international level.

As part of this standardization initiative, the government also aims to expand the number of experts on international atomic energy standardization from the current eleven to more than one-hundred by 2011.