Malaysian Nuclear Society (MNS), established in 1989, is a non-governmental organization committed to promote the peaceful use of nuclear science and technology.
The Malaysian Nuclear Society (MNS), established 1988, welcomes the decision in the 2009 budget speech that Malaysia will be “exploring nuclear energy… to ensure long term energy security of the nation.”
1. Hari Hiroshima & Nagasaki 2010 (H&N10) - 4 Aug 2010 in conjunction with National Nuclear Science Engineering et Technology Conference 2010 (NuSTEC2010) - 4-5 Aug 2010. ; Venue: Uniten, Kajang, Selangor (Tentative)
contact - Dr Zaini Hamzah at (mazbiha@yahoo.com) Conference Brochures for more.... H&N10 Flyer for more
2. One Day Workshop on "Research Reactor (RR) In Malaysia - Need A New High Flux RR?"; Date (tent.) - end June 2010; Ven. - TBA; contact MNS Secretary (setiausaha-mns@nuklearmalaysia.org)
3. Half-Day Seminar on "Nuclear Power Option for Malaysia"; Date(tent) : April (end); Venue - TBA; contact MNS Secretary (setiausaha-mns@nuklearmalaysia.org)
As Ukraine's presidential election approaches, hopeful candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has embarked on a remarkable pro-nuclear campaigning spree. Earlier this week Tymoshenko, who is the current prime minister, paid a visit to the nuclear-industrial complex in the Zaporizhzh oblast
31 March 2010
Source: WNN
Category: news (Nuclear Applications)
The USA has signed with Vietnam for increased cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. America's memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vietnam was signed in Hanoi yesterday by Le Dinh Tien, Vietnam's deputy minister of science and technology, and Michael Michalak, US Ambassador to the country. In a statement, the US Department of State said, "This MoU will open the door for increased cooperation in such areas as the development of human resources and safety and security infrastructure, access to reliable sources of nuclear fuel, and the management of radioactive waste and used fuel." It added, "Vietnam has demonstrated its commitment to the responsible expansion of nuclear power through careful steps taken in cooperation with the United States, among other international partners, towards the development of the robust nuclear infrastructure needed to oversee the deployment of its first nuclear power plants over the coming decades." For more : Read the Article:http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-USA_and_Vietnam_agree_to_nuclear_cooperation-3103104.html?jmid=12415&
Overview of Nuclear Energy in Uruguay
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Eng. Alvaro Bermudez
July 2010
Uruguay´s overall energy situation is in line with its consumption, one of the lowest in Latin America. In the past 25 years, different democratic governments have made only reduced efforts regarding electricity generation, but they have developed an intensive policy in trying to secure international investment with diverse success. The most important industrial venture in the country´s history is the recent BOTNIA cellulose manufacturing plant under the control of the Finish UPM. This venture had to change its ambitious initial project because of a lack of long term energy resources and turn to a self-generating energy scheme for its wood process transformation, with the resulting reduction of production scope.
Every year the government has to discourage electrical energy consumption due to its incapacity to offer a secure energy supply especially during droughts because of the hydraulic dependence of the national energy matrix. For many years access to energy imports from bordering countries has been the solution and it has already caused 1 billion dollars expenditures in 2008 to satisfy a modest demand of a pre-industrial country.
The limitations mainly come from its lack of own energy resources given Uruguay does not possess carbon deposits, nor natural gas, nor petroleum to the date and past generations have smartly developed hydroelectrical resources to their limits. In the past 10 years an increase of native energy resources has been attempted in the areas of generation and liquid fuel with low results until now. Anyway, the maximum exploitation of these resources is insufficient regarding the national territory and its productive areas from the energy point of view, if we are thinking about a policy to increase industrialization, written in a regional economic productive context in areas clear expansion.
Therefore, the extreme dependence on international energy prices and similar problems in neighboring countries, led the country to study nuclear energy as a long and medium term potential solution. Being able to count on a steady generation independent from adverse climatic variables plus the reduction of the onerous energy import, could lead the way to a local economy takeoff. The former administration created a multipartisan commission, of which I am a part, to study the possible nuclear energy generation as an option, according to the rules suggested by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that would be a part of the 2010 national budget.
The national debate had been already established during my role at the National Direction of Energy and Nuclear Technology in the early 2000s. The alternatives of having a nuclear reactor based in natural or enriched uranium plus its capacity and location are matter of discussion in the media and have generated related literature. It would be also necessary to take into account the offer of the Russian Federation related to midterm solutions in barges with a nuclear generation limited capacity that has interested the present president and is included in the opposition party´s program.
