Indonesia will build its first nuclear power plant in 2010
The country’s first nuclear power plant is due to be built at Mt. Muria in Central Java in 2010. The government is targeting the bringing onstream of a nuclear plant with an initial capacity of 4,000 megawatts, representing about 2 percent of total national energy demand, by 2017.
This plan has been long discussed and debated here, but let’s we see how the government informs and socializes it.
Indonesia will press ahead with its plan to begin the construction of its first nuclear power plant in 2010, even though no decisions have thus far been made on many important aspects, including technological specifications and safety standards.
Natio Lasman, the chairman of the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten), said Tuesday in Jakarta that these matters were still under consideration.
“We are currently sounding out the necessary technology from other countries, such as Japan, the United States, France and Germany, so as to make sure that we get the safest,” Lasman told The Jakarta Post on the sidelines of a nuclear energy seminar held jointly by Bapeten and the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro).
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