Aku tidak bisa membayangkan apabila Indonesia membangun tenaga nuklir.
Kalau tidak salah akan didirikan dekat Jepara Jawa Tengah. Bagaimana tuh
industri per-kayu-an yang sudah terkenal.
Aku kira mulai sekarang kiranya pemilik industri per-kayu-an itu perlu
mikirin pindah tempat.
Siapa tahu Chernobyl 2 akan jadi kenyataan.
Kalau Jepang saja, yang sudah banyak pengalaman menangani pembangkit
listrik tenaga nuklir bisa "kecolongan" dan radioaktip bisa meresap keluar
karena adanya gempa bumi, bagaimana dengan Indonesia yang juga ada dikawasan
"ring of fire"?
Jangan sampai nanti seperti Sidoardjo/Porong,..... apa pabrik2 kerupuk
mengalami kebanjiran? Aku baru2 ini beli kerupuk (Ny.Siok) harganya sekarang
tambah mahal.
Harry Adinegara
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Greenpeace members in Jakarta protesting nuclear power.
Environmentalists say building atomic reactors in corrupt, quake-prone Asian
countries courts disaster. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)
In Indonesia, Japan quake casts shadow over nuclear plant plans
By Donald Greenlees
Published: July 26, 2007
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BALONG, Indonesia: Environmental groups campaigning against Indonesia's plan
to build some of Southeast Asia's first nuclear power reactors near this poor
rice farming village in East Java were given a stark demonstration of their
worst fears on July 16 when an earthquake in Japan severely damaged one of the
world's largest nuclear power facilities, causing a minor radiation leak.
They had been warning for years against government plans to introduce nuclear
power to Indonesia's energy mix because of the risk that an earthquake could
rupture a reactor and let nuclear contaminants spill into the surrounding
environment.
Officials from the national nuclear energy agency argue that the site where
the government wants to build four to six nuclear power plants, on the Muria
Peninsula in East Java Province, about 450 kilometers, or 280 miles, east of
Jakarta, is one of the most geologically stable parts of an island with a
record of violent earthquakes.
But in recent years scientists have discovered a small geological fault below
the proposed site, say environmental activists and government officials.
"Under the area where the power plant is planned there is now a minor
fracture that didn't exist in the 1990s," said Nur Hidayati, the Jakarta-based
climate and energy coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia. "Indonesia has a
lot of earthquakes. If a nuclear power plant is built here, the dangers will
increase."
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Safety and environmental concerns over nuclear power in a country prone to
earthquakes, riddled with corruption and known for poor regulatory oversight of
public utilities might have some merit. In May last year, an earthquake
measuring 5.9 devastated parts of neighboring Central Java, killing more than
5,000 people.
But none of this is likely to deter the Indonesian government from its
nuclear energy plans, first proposed by the government when Suharto was
president in the early 1990s.
Following the earthquake in Japan, government officials reaffirmed they
intended to stick to a timetable that would bring the first nuclear power plant
online in 2016.
"It has some impact on us," said Ferhat Aziz, a spokesman for the nuclear
energy agency. "Any accident anywhere in the world will have some impact,
especially in terms of communicating to the public."
But he added: "We are still going ahead with this plan."
Indonesia, like all its neighbors in Southeast Asia, is facing intense
pressure to diversify its energy sources. It wants to shift away from heavily
polluting, increasingly expensive and depleting supplies of fossil fuels to
more sustainable alternatives.
Nuclear power is emerging as a key part of the future energy mix, not just
for Indonesia, but for many of its neighbors in Southeast Asia - a region that
until now has eschewed atomic energy.
Despite fears of accidents and the opposition of environmental groups,
several Southeast Asian governments have either firm plans to develop nuclear
power stations in the coming decade or have begun studies into its potential,
in hopes of emulating Northeast Asia's long-established use of nuclear energy.
In a long-term energy plan released last year, government officials in
Jakarta estimate that by 2025 about 4 to 5 percent of Indonesia's electricity
supply will come from the string of power stations in East Java.
Vietnam has announced that it expects 4.7 percent of its electricity needs to
be met by nuclear power by the same date, once it finishes the construction of
about four power reactors. The first is due to be completed in 2015.
In Thailand, a national power development plan approved in April envisions
nuclear power plants contributing 4 gigawatts to the electricity grid by 2021.
Others could follow suit. In Malaysia, government officials said in February
that a move to nuclear energy could not be ruled out if fuel prices continued
to rise, although Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said last week the
country had no nuclear development plans. A comprehensive study of future
energy needs, including consideration of nuclear, is to be completed in 2010.
The Philippines built a 620-megawatt nuclear power plant at Bataan in the
1980s. But it was never used, mothballed by the administration of President
Corazón Aquino in 1986 because of safety fears. President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo is now putting the nuclear option back on the table. She has
said the country should develop skills in nuclear technology as a first step to
a possible decision on nuclear power in a decade.
The military junta ruling Myanmar reached an agreement with Russia's atomic
energy agency in May to build a research reactor as a possible first step to
nuclear electricity generation, although some also fear the secretive state
might ultimately have a military program in mind.
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