Nuclear power plant set for 2010

Nuclear power plant set for 2010

JAKARTA: The government is considering to revive plans to
build a nuclear power plant in 2010, Antara reported.

"We must develop the nuclear (field) in a bid to be respected
(by other countries). We have the capability to do that,"
Research and Technology Minister Hatta Radjasa said Tuesday.

He expected the development of a plant located in northern
coast of Central Java could produce nuclear power as one
alternative energy source by 2015.

The Muria Peninsula project, which was postponed following
public opposition in 1997, was prepared during the rule of
president Soeharto by B.J. Habibie, who was then research and
technology minister.

The project, which was designed as an 800-megawatt plant,
would have been the first of 12 nuclear plants in the area. --
Antara