Safe Place Build Nuclear Power Plant in Indonesia

The explosion occurred at the nuclear reactor at the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Fukushima make some parties question the plan to build a similar plant in Indonesia. Indonesia is a country with a large earthquake potential and varied, but there are some places that are safe from earthquakes.

Nuclear experts ITB, Prof.. Dr. Zaki Su'ud explained after the Chernobyl incident, earthquake experts revolutionize the design of nuclear plants with high safety standards, because the fear of radioactive contamination from nuclear.

Since then, nuclear technology for electricity generation grew rapidly. Today nuclear technology for power plants reach the fourth generation, in which case the sabotage against nuclear power nuclear reactor would not explode

The developers are developing passive reactor nuclear safety that if there are problems in nuclear power plants then the computer will work.

"This is to minimize operator error," Zaki said in Bandung, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. "Operators will not say anything, multiprocessor computer that will respond to and implement the measures taken."

According to him, the NPP is important if countries are willing to implement a cheap alternative energy. The price of electricity generated from nuclear power plants only Rp200 per Kwh, much if compared with the price of electricity derived from coal plants that reached Rp670 per Kwh. He pointed out how China support the industry by building about 140 reactors, so the electricity in China can be cheap.

For an ideal NPP construction site, continued Zaki, there are some places that are relatively stable are not shaken by earthquakes. Some areas include Bangka Belitung, Kalimantan, Jepara, and one island in the northern province.

"It seems most ready Bangka Belitung, if Jepara happen rejection by the citizens. Banten north side of the island there are also quite far from the epicenter," he said.

If Indonesia wants to build nuclear power plants, he recommends using the highest security standards. Average potential earthquake that occurred in Indonesia about 7.0 Rickher Scale, therefore the construction of nuclear plants could withstand an earthquake up to 8.5 magnitude.

There is a fee to be paid more, but not how when compared to human safety and security.

"Indonesia must learn from the case of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, where ever there is a case of radioactive leaks. Design powerful nuclear power plant must be engineered to anticipate the worst," he explained.

Meanwhile, experts Geodesy Bandung Institute of Technology, Dr Irwan Mailano explain the whole territory of Japan is in the quake zone, but 40 percent of electricity supplied from nuclear power plants in Japan.

"The principle of nuclear build must reverse designs for nuclear power plants adjust to the conditions of the earthquake," he said.