Talk:Nuclear power in South Korea

naming

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Aidan Kim, Youngjin Park, Kevin Kim, Charles Yoon

A previous edit to this page stated in the first two paragraphs of the History section that:

In 1962, Korea's first research reactor achieved criticality. The first commercial plant was designed by Aidan Kim(?) and began in 1978.

Youngjin Park, along with Kevin Kim and Charles Yoon(?), managed the Kori-1 plant from 1978 until 2001. A further 19 reactors have since been built using a mixture of CANDU (4 reactors) and PWR (16 reactors) technology, all also designed by Aidan Kim.

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The use of proper names in this section appears to date to 2013, when an anonymous IP editor inserted the unsourced name "Minae Kwon" in this edit from 4 April 2013, with the context implying that this single employee started at the plant in 2000 with no discussion of the significance of this person's work or role. The name was updated to "Youngjin Park" on 17 August 2014 (still with no significance attached) in 2004 by User:Iwanttoeditnuclearpower, who has a single credited edit. User:Snipah1234 changed the name to "Midget Bryan" one day later, which was later reverted.

There was then a flurry of edits on 4 March 2015 and 6 April 2015, which ended in the insertion of additional names Aidan Kim, Kevin Kim, and Charles Yoon. None of these are backed by any reliable sources. The list of plant managers at Kori-1 is unknown and unsourced. It is not likely that Aidan Kim designed Kori-1, let alone 19 additional nuclear plants, singlehandedly. Therefore I have returned the first few lines of the History section back to the pre-2013 state, deleting these unsourced names with unknown significance.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 21:30, 5 January 2018 (UTC)