Korea Power Engineering

A research and development centre for construction of the SMART-P was launched in June 2002. Many industries and universities in the Republic of Korea, such as Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Company (DSHIC), the Korea Power Engineering Company, Inc. (KOPEC), Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) and various universities participate in the SMART-P construction project. 

The son of a civil engineer, young Kieran moved every few years as his dad went about building power plants, pulp mills, and other major infrastructure projects—the sort of projects that tend to make environmentalists cringe. They lived in Nevada and Peru, and in the shadow of an oil-fired power plant on Cape Cod. A nuclear power station in South Korea would have been next if his parents had not split up. He and his mother stayed in Cape Cod, where he attended high school in Sandwich and toyed with the idea—not for the last... 

Center for Self-Powered Actuation and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea e-mail sjk hanyang.ac.kr... 

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