Sir,I second your assessment on the need for nucle...

2008-08-14T22:54:00.000+07:00

Sir,

I second your assessment on the need for nuclear power in Indonesia -or at least a serious and fair consideration to build one (or more).

When discussing nuclear power, we need to separate between the technology itself and the technical elements of safety. In general the world population deems that aviation is a good thing and a necessity, but surely safety standards and technical improvements can always be improved. The same goes for nuclear power. Surely what happened in Chernobyl was catastrophic and the world should never experience anything close to it ever again. But nuclear power has also been electrifying hundreds of millions of households for decades.

In an ideal world and period we would have wind turbines, solar panels, and geothermal powering up our grid. But reality check would suggest that this will not happen in the coming decades, despite massive scale-up of efforts in light of energy demand surge and climate change. In the meanwhile, population is growing and so is energy demand.

I am not staunchly advocating for nuclear in the Republic; what I am advocating is for immediate access to electricity for over a hundred million of my countrymen at an affordable cost without over-dependency to foreign energy supply. If nuclear is one of the answers, so be it. Unfair campaigns that blindly aim to tarnish the reputation of nuclear power at a cost of denying millions of already underprivileged families of electricity should not be justified. We need workable solutions, and too often these are not the ideal ones.

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