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Indonesia gonna have nuclear power plants. The goverment plans to built its first nuclear power plant on the foothills of Mount Muria, a dormant volcano on the north coast of Java island.
A well constructed nuclear power plant maybe have an important advantage when it comes to electrical power generation. They extermely clean.
Compared with a coal-fired power plant, nuclear power plants are a dream come true from an environmental standpoint. A coal-fired power plant actually releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere than a properly functioning nuclear power plant. Coal-fired plants also release tons of carbon, sulfur and other elements into the atmosphere.
But we have to consider the very real possibility of a large industrial accident occurring within the plant as a result of mechanical failure, human failure, and natural disaster which almost every year strikes our community.
There are significant problems with nuclear power plants:
1. Natural phenomenom like earthquake, tsunami, storms, and ligthning can contribute to increase d safety risk at nuclear power station.
2. Mining and purifying uranium has not, historically, been a very clean process.
3. Improperly functioning nuclear power plants can create big problems. The Chernobyl disaster is a good recent example.
Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 occurred as a result of an experiment on how long safety equipment would function during shutdown at the fourth reactor unit at Ukraine's first and largest nuclear power station. The operators had dismantled safety mechanisms at the reactor to prevent its automatic shutdown, but this reactor type (a graphitemoderated Soviet RBMK) became unstable if operated at low power. An operator error caused a power surge that blew the roof off the reactor unit, releasing the contents of the reactor into the atmosphere for a period of about twelve days.Chernobyl was poorly designed and improperly operated, but it dramatically shows the worst-case scenario. Chernobyl accident scattered tons of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.
4. Problems of waste disposal. Spent fuel from nuclear power plants is toxic for centuries, and, as yet, there is no safe, permanent storage facility for it.
5. Transporting nuclear fuel and waste to and from plants poses some risk: how do you guarantee against an accident en route?
These problems have largely derailed the creation of new nuclear power plants. Our goverment and society seem to have decided that the risks outweigh the rewards. So what do you think ?? give your comment here...
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6 comments:
kadangkala kalo mikir tarif listrik yang makin naik, tetapi di lain pihak PLN masih rugi gede dan pelayanan juga masih buruk, saya sepakat aja ada tenaga nuklir kalo bisa memberikan low cost energy...
ya kayaknya belom siap dech kita,lha wong menjaga para tahanan biar nggak melarikan diri aja susah heheeheh
salam kenal mas
Thanks to Isnuansa and Imam, Ya...emang kalo lihat kondisi masyarakat kita yang seperti saat ini, kayaknya sih kita harus berpikir seribu kali lagi sebelum membangun PLTN...
nuklir..siapa takut.. mari qta ATM (amati,tiru,ikuti) sodara qta yang berada nun jauh disana,,,he2 republik islam Iran...
Kalau saya sangat setuju, karena PLTN sangat murah biaya produksi per kwhnya, jangan sampai suatu saat kita import energy listrik, sedangkan kita sangat kaya uranium, kayak ayam mati di lumbung padi, he he
Indonesia needs nuclear energy for electricity demand. Prediction in the future, any renewable energy can't enough to replace any fossil fuel.
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