i just want to point out a few things

1. cost
The cost of nuclear energy can be separated into the following main components:

• Research and development
• Construction cost of building the plant.
• Operating cost of running the plant and generating energy.
• Cost of waste disposal from the plant.
• Cost of decommissioning the plant

Quantifying some of these costs is difficult as it requires an extrapolation into the future.

There are a few cases in Finland and France where the costs shoots up and then the government wished they didnt start the god-forsaken project in the first place.

2. national security
terrorist atacks, theft and proliferation

u all do seriously trust malaysia's security personnel in term of dealing with these stuff?

Even former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has doubted the ability of local authorities to handle such issues. He then referred to the Bukit Merah case in the 1980s, where the mining of yttrium from a by-product of tin, resulted in radioactive waste being dumped at the site.

frankly, IMO, Dr. M knows what kind of keldais and dungus are sitting in the posts. what do you think?

haha maybe ppl are not interested anymore.

anywaysss, last week Lim Guan Eng dropped the bomb on our Green Tech Minister in Parliament. He said that "If stadium roof can collapse (refering the one in Terengganu), how can we assume that the same thing would not happen to a nuclear power station?"

What do you guys think on this?

Cesc
B Eng (Chemical)
Monash University