Indonesia to build nuclear reactor

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1347810.htm

Indonesian authorities have given the go-ahead to build the country's first nuclear power plant on the densely-populated island of Java, with the aim of producing electricity by 2016.

Atomic and Nuclear Energy Agency spokesman Deddy Harsono says the site of the project, the Muria peninsula on Central Java province's north-east coast, was chosen for its tectonic and volcanic stability - a major concern in a country that sees regular eruptions and earthquakes.

Mr Harsono says the project will be tendered in 2008, for start of construction in 2010 and production in 2016.

The project, which was shelved in 1997 due to mounting public opposition and the discovery and exploitation of the large Natuna gas field, involves the construction of four plants, each with a 1,000 megawatt capacity.

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[HeeBGBz]

1. Oh yah, that's what I would do...

Shake and Bake.

[kurtyboy]

2. This will give those Australians already afraid of their brown northern

neighbors even more reason to be afraid, very afraid. Muslim nation, short of land, with reactors--and eventual capability to produce plutonium.

It'll be interesting to see how the semi-xenophobic Howard government reacts to this...