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Material Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Disclosure Of Material Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Summary of Property, Plant and Equipment, Estimated Useful Lives | The estimated useful lives of the Company’s property, plant and equipment are as follows:
|  | Useful lives (years)
Buildings |  | 8 ~ 40
Structures |  | 5 ~ 50
Machinery |  | 2 ~ 32
Vehicles |  | 3 ~ 8
Loaded heavy water |  | 30
Asset retirement costs |  | 18, 30, 40, 60
Right-of-use assets |  | 1 ~ 65
Ships |  | 9
Others |  | 4 ~ 15
Summary of Intangible Assets, Estimated Useful Lives | The estimated useful lives and amortization methods of the Company’s intangible assets are as follows:
|  | Useful lives (years) |  | Amortization methods
Usage rights for donated assets |  | 10 ~ 30 |  | Straight line
Software |  | 4, 5 |  | Straight line
Industrial rights |  | 5 ~ 10 |  | Straight line
Development expenditures |  | 5 |  | Straight line
Leasehold rights |  | 8 ~ 10 |  | Straight line
Others |  | 3 ~ 50 or indefinite |  | Straight line
Mining rights |  | — |  | Unit of production
Summary of Classification and Measurement of Financial Assets | The Company assesses the hybrid financial instrument in which derivatives embedded as a whole for classification.
|  | Cash flow characteristics
Business model |  | Solely payments of principal and interest (SPPI) |  | Other than SPPI
To collect contractual cash flows |  | Amortized cost |  | FVTPL (*2)
Both collecting contractual cash flows and selling financial assets |  | FVOCI (*1)
To sell financial assets |  | FVTPL
| (*1) | To eliminate or reduce an accounting mismatch, the Company may elect to recognize the amount of change in fair value in profit or loss.
| (*2) | On initial recognition of an equity investment that is not held for trading, the Company may irrevocably elect to present subsequent changes in the investment’s fair value in OCI.

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