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NO PERMIT SO FAR FOR RI'S NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT
Jakarta, Aug 5 (ANTARA) - The Nuclear Power Supervisory Board (Bapeten) has so far not received any application for a permit to build a nuclear power plant on the Muria Peninsula in Jepara , Central Java, in 2010, the board's chief said.
"Nobody has so far applied for a permit to implement the government's plan to build the Muria nuclear power plant," Bapeten head Dr As Natio Lasman said here Wednesday.
Yet, he told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar on the safety of nuclear power plants, the presidential regulation issued in 2005 legalizing the use of nuclear power as a national energy source was still in force.
The Muria project would not be undertaken by Bapeten or the National Nuclear Power Agency (Batan) but by a state-owned enterprise, a private company or cooperative possessing the needed capital, he said.
Lasman said, if Indonesia continued to waver about building a nuclear power facility, it would be left farther and farther behind by other countries.
In the USA, he said, there were now 104 nuclear power plants and 12 more were to be built in the coming years to end reliance on fossil fuels by 2040.
China was also planning to have 25 nuclear power plants over the next 4-5 years to meet the increasing electricity needs of its industries, and the same trend was happening in India.
In quake-prone Japan, 34 percent of the people's need for electricity was now being met by 55 nuclear power plants with the construction of seven more plants in the pipeline.
France was relying on nuclear power to meet 78 percent of its domestic need for electricity and it was now even exporting nuclear-based electricity to other countries.
In Asia, countries like Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were planning to operate nuclear power plants by 2020.
Globally, there were now 488 nuclear power plants in more than 30 countries that meet 16 persen of world demand for electricity. .
According to Lasman, nuclear power plants were much cleaner in environmental terms than the 10,000-MW thermal coal-fired power plants the Indonesian government was now building because nuclear facilities would not contribute to the country's carbon emissions. .
"Nuclear power plants will also be a more stable producer of electricity over a long period of time whereas coal-fired thermal power plants are dependent on coal supplies that can be disrupted any time , for instance, by weather conditions, especially if they have to be transported by ships," he said.
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"Nobody has so far applied for a permit to implement the government's plan to build the Muria nuclear power plant," Bapeten head Dr As Natio Lasman said here Wednesday.
Yet, he told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar on the safety of nuclear power plants, the presidential regulation issued in 2005 legalizing the use of nuclear power as a national energy source was still in force.
The Muria project would not be undertaken by Bapeten or the National Nuclear Power Agency (Batan) but by a state-owned enterprise, a private company or cooperative possessing the needed capital, he said.
Lasman said, if Indonesia continued to waver about building a nuclear power facility, it would be left farther and farther behind by other countries.
In the USA, he said, there were now 104 nuclear power plants and 12 more were to be built in the coming years to end reliance on fossil fuels by 2040.
China was also planning to have 25 nuclear power plants over the next 4-5 years to meet the increasing electricity needs of its industries, and the same trend was happening in India.
In quake-prone Japan, 34 percent of the people's need for electricity was now being met by 55 nuclear power plants with the construction of seven more plants in the pipeline.
France was relying on nuclear power to meet 78 percent of its domestic need for electricity and it was now even exporting nuclear-based electricity to other countries.
In Asia, countries like Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were planning to operate nuclear power plants by 2020.
Globally, there were now 488 nuclear power plants in more than 30 countries that meet 16 persen of world demand for electricity. .
According to Lasman, nuclear power plants were much cleaner in environmental terms than the 10,000-MW thermal coal-fired power plants the Indonesian government was now building because nuclear facilities would not contribute to the country's carbon emissions. .
"Nuclear power plants will also be a more stable producer of electricity over a long period of time whereas coal-fired thermal power plants are dependent on coal supplies that can be disrupted any time , for instance, by weather conditions, especially if they have to be transported by ships," he said.
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