Nuclear Power Plant for Indonesia

It is purported that nuclear energy is the source of clean power for the future but not when you build reactors in the wrong places.

In Indonesia, a nuclear power plant is reported to be being built at the foot of Mt Muria on Java’s north coast - an area of intense geological instability.

A nuclear reactor to be built in a part of Indonesia prone to earthquakes and volcanoes could pose serious health risks for thousands of people in northern Australia according to researchers and that harmful substances released into the air in the event of an accident at the proposed nuclear plant on Java would take just days to reach Darwin and Kakadu National Park during summer months.

The whole idea of building a nuclear plant at the foot of Gunung Muria was bantered during the Soeharto regime and at one stage they had even cleared the land ready or so reports from the area indicated. It is a time for common sense. The recent earthquake in Yogyakarta should be enough of a deterrent and more so now with the pending eruption of Gunung Merapi. Any kind of disturbance to the tectonic plates would surely have ramifications and with a nuclear reactor established, it is anybody's guess as to the outcome.

It appears politicians and investors do not look through the looking glass lightly, but darkly. I for one have not forgotten what happened at Chernobyl.