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South Korea to invest $120 billion in eight US nuclear reactors

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
6

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Yonhap South Korea · English 30 Sept, 20:53 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Čeština (3) · Deutsch (1) · Português (1) · Српски (1) · 한국어 (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 47 hours.

5 10
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Yonhap, 30 Sept, 20:53 UTC.
  2. Second country: Japan, with Nikkei Asia.
  3. Second region: Europe, with ČT24.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 04:26 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 3 countries · 40%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 3 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Yonhap 30 Sept, 20:53 UTC
  2. Nikkei Asia +3h 8m
  3. ČT24 +5h 32m
  4. Seznam Zprávy +7h 33m
  5. iDNES +8h 32m

Last to join

  1. CNN Brasil 2 Oct, 19:45 UTC
  2. The Business Standard 2 Oct, 13:05 UTC
  3. N1 2 Oct, 08:13 UTC
  4. Hankyoreh 2 Oct, 06:30 UTC
  5. Frankfurter Allgemeine 1 Oct, 05:36 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 3: Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea. Europe 3: Czechia, Germany, Serbia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, German, English, Korean, Portuguese, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Yonhap, 30 Sept 2026, 20:53 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 21:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 19:45 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
2 Oct 2026 156 7.27 10 7 4 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 21:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 19:45 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 2 Oct, 19:45 UTC
    Trump diz que Coreia do Sul investirá US$ 8,4 bilhões em petróleo

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 2 Oct, 13:05 UTC
    Trump says US deal with South Korea includes $8.4 billion for oil recovery
  • Hankyoreh South Korea 2 Oct, 06:30 UTC
    Korea in talks to inject $10 billion into US nuclear reactor project this year despite still reviewing viability
  • Nikkei Asia Japan 1 Oct, 00:00 UTC
    South Korea to build 8 nuclear power plants in US, invest $120bn
  • Yonhap South Korea 30 Sept, 20:53 UTC
    (URGENT) Lutnick says S. Korea to invest US$120 billion to build 8 nuclear power plants

Europe 5 outlets

  • N1 Serbia 2 Oct, 08:13 UTC
    Sporazum SAD i Južne Koreje o nuklearnim reaktorima vredan 120 milijardi dolara
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 1 Oct, 05:36 UTC
    120 Milliarden Dollar: Südkorea baut Trump acht Atomkraftwerke
  • iDNES Czechia 1 Oct, 05:25 UTC
    Jižní Korea investuje v USA 120 miliard dolarů do osmi jaderných reaktorů
  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 1 Oct, 04:26 UTC
    Jižní Korea investuje v USA 120 miliard dolarů na výstavbu jaderných reaktorů
  • ČT24 Czechia 1 Oct, 02:25 UTC
    Jižní Korea investuje v USA miliardy dolarů do výstavby jaderných reaktorů
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