Southeast Asia

Dec 16, 2005

Indonesia taps into Korean nuclear expertise

JAKARTA - State-owned electricity company PLN will team up with the Korea Electric Power Corp and the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co to carry out a feasibility study on building the country's first nuclear power plant.

The nuclear power plant was expected to solve the country's problem of power supply shortages, PLN primary energy generation director Ali Herman Ibrahim said.

Ali said a memorandum of understanding had been signed with the two Korean companies to carry out the feasibility study, to be completed in a year. The nuclear power plant will use OPR-1000

class technology, which could generate up to 1,000 megawatts of electric energy, he said.

The National Atomic Power Agency (Batan) had already carried out a feasibility study on the project, to be built at the foot of Mount Muria in Central Java.

Earlier, PLN transmission and distribution director Herman Darnel Ibrahim said that nuclear power was not yet included in PLN's development program until 2015.

However, the firm would be eager to have serious discussions if any investor was interested.

(Asia Pulse/Antara)

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