(2026-10-27, ~8:25 AM ET, fnnews — en.fnnews.com/news): The IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy is being held in South Korea for the first time, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon delivered the keynote, framed under the heading "SMR development and demonstration to accelerate." The pledge is intent, not program: no funding figure, named project, schedule, or vendor in the report.