Despite Japan Crisis, Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power

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Despite Japan Crisis, Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power, Voice of America News, Brian Padden, 14 March 2011

Aziz says to ensure public safety Indonesia will build plants outside of earthquake zones and in accordance with the International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines. But Richard Tanter a nuclear safety and security researcher at the Nautilus Institute in Melbourne says, the proposed site for a nuclear power plant on the Muria peninsula on the north coast of central Java is a high risk location.

“Firstly that was on the edge of a volcano. Secondly there were seismic risks in that area,” noted Tanter. “Thirdly planning for that Muria nuclear power plant has been based on Japanese earthquake guidelines of thirty years ago.”