The Malaysian government has approved plans to build a nuclear power plant, expected to start operations by 2021. This was announced by the Malaysian Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui after officiating the first carbon neutral conference on Sustainable Buildings South-East Asia. He described nuclear power as an inevitability, given that …
According to an official from Philippine power utility National Power Corp (Napocor), the government will need to spend US$4bn if it is to build two nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 2000MW. Pio Benadvidez, Napocor’s senior vice president, said in an interview that: “That’s around $4 billion because the revival of the Bataan …
The Polish government announced on March 16 that it has selected the northern town of Zarnowiec to be the site of the country’s first nuclear power plant, out of 28 possible sites. Construction of a nuclear power station was started in the town in the late 1980s but was abandoned in the 1990 due to …
President Barack Obama has announced that the Federal government will provide US$8.3bn in federal loan guarantees for two new nuclear power stations to be build in the state of Georgia, at an existing nuclear facility by the US power utility, Southern Company. The President hailed the projects as a means of boosting job creation, saying …
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