Korea must start building new permanent storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste as the current temporary storage at nuclear power plants will begin reaching saturation point in 2028, according to scholars and industry experts, Thursday.
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A 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit the southeastern city of Gyeongju at 4:55 a.m. on Thursday, the state weather agency said, prompting mobile phones across Korea to blare en masse from the emergency text alert. No damage has been reported as of Thursday afternoon. The second-strongest quake to hit Korea this year struck the historical city of Gyeongju, located 277 kilometers southeast of Seoul in the wee hours of the mo.