TALK SUMMARY

Hi to fellow friends,

We meet again in this column and at this time I want to share what I got from the talk lecture series by Mrs. Sheriffah Noor Khamseah Al-Idid binti Dato’ Syed Ahmad Idid from Nuclear power Division, Malaysia Nuclear Agency, Bangi and Mr. Azrudy from TNB Nuclear Unit.

Our first speaker is Mrs. Sheriffah Noor Khamseah Al-Idid binti Dato’ Syed Ahmad Idid. From what she explained, lots of knowledge we get and let says before this we don’t know about nuclear fact, we just got from her explanation.

His title talk series is Global Overview of Nuclear Power Programme (NPP).

So, let me summarize this lecture series to give you an easy way to understand. From 1850 until now, there a lot of energy uses in our life. Coal, oil, gas, and lately nuclear have been uses as the energy source. But, until year 2015 oil remains the dominant energy source. From Mr. Nabuo Tanaka qoute, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA), he stated that the current energy that we used is unsustainable. Therefore, it does will affect the global warming and can give the effect to the people.

With the oil price always unstable and sometimes price are high give the big impact to us. So, we need to find the solution to find the green energy sources. So, nuclear are the green energy that we find?? For your information, uranium with fast breeder reactors have lifetime energy resources is higher with more than 3000 years we can uses with coal is 155 years and gas with 65 years only.

Remove to other part which is status of nuclear power as the end of 2009. This part is very important for me because we can know how much country uses nuclear as their energy sources and how many countries to follow this step. For whom who know, let me tell you that 30 countries(436 nuclear power plants) already have nuclear power plant and it’s generate about 15% of world energy electricity and will be more increase year by years. From these 30 countries, many of them use PWR (Pressurized Light-Water-Moderated and Cooled Reactor) as the reactor types.

From the Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), more than 60 countries are interested in exploring nuclear energy. From his speech, he stated that “Nuclear power is accepted by an increasing number of countries as a stable, safe and clean source of energy. The growing attractiveness of nuclear power is due to a number of factors. They include its strong performance and safety records, now totaling more than 14,000 reactor-years; nuclear power´s very low greenhouse gas emissions; surging global energy demand; and concern about energy security”. So, let’s consider this green energy sources as our country energy sources. Can you support that??

Before I finish my summarization, I am very attracted to Mr. Azrudy speech about how to save our Earth on green environment? We support electric car as to save the earth but the electric car uses energy from hydro for example which release carbon dioxide to our environment. So, how to save our environment? Therefore, let’s uses nuclear energy as sources because its green energy and no carbon dioxide are released.

Hello……

We come back again…..Now I will explain about  what I hear during second talk today…The talk discuss about “Nuclear goes green”…

Can you think how different the world would be today if 40 years ago we had replaced all fossil fuel with nuclear power? There would be no power shortages. Our electrical bill would be a fraction of what it is. We would be driving cars powered by hydrogen and nobody would be worrying about global warming...

Since the Chernobyl disaster, many people think badly about nuclear. But now many people are talking about nuclear and advantages. Now, a lot of research was done to build a nuclear power plant. Nuclear is good because they are good at building weapons and powering cities for the benefit of man-kind. The buildings are good to because they are tall and if there is a big explosion, no one gets hurt.

Scared of nuclear power? Well think again.          

Nuclear Power has a higher safety record than any other major industrial technology. It’s clean, safe, economical and environmentally sound, and allows us to desalinate our water, end hunger and poverty, and turn our wastelands into Gardens of Eden. Nuclear power has more than just a little greenhouse gas attached to it, when mining uranium are, refining and enriching fuel, building the plant, and operating it are included.

Nuclear Power also can help us end our dependence on oil, thereby lessening terrorism and our need to engage in oil-based wars. Nuclear Power is the key to reversing global warming. Find out what really happened at Three Mile Island and how despite the media hype, Chernobyl was simply a one-in-a-million occurrence. Environmentalists have distorted the facts and brought down the nuclear industry. Society must be prepared to again bring nuclear power to the forefront, or the human race may not survive the 21st century.

 

Do you know a typical pellet of uranium weighs about 7 grams can generates how much energy?

For your information, it can generates as much energy as 3.5 barrels of oil, as much as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas and as much energy as 1,780 pounds of coal…

Now, you can feel it’s nuclear is green or not…Think carefully…