Pontianak-Chief of the National Atomic Energy Agency (BATAN), Hadi Hastowo, at the inauguration Setiyanto as Head of Technology Center for Reactor and Nuclear Safety (PTRKN) in Jakarta, Friday, June 6, 2008, asserts, the issue of safety is the only reason the parties who refuse application of nuclear technology."PTRKN should be able to guarantee the safety of raw and applicative, in order to attain success in the field of research reactors and nuclear safety as one of the main support nation building," said Hadi. Mine uranium or radioactive seeds as the main raw material of nuclear technology-based industries. His form of chemical silver-colored metal, is elastic, malleable, easily made shiny, but quickly dim and very radioactive.
Atomic number of uranium (U) is 92. There are two types of uranium, the U-235 and U-238. U-238 he was much younger than the U-235. U-238 in reactors Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is used as a producer of plutonium-239, driving the turbine-generator, creator of electrical energy.
Recycling
In operation, nuclear power reactor system implementing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. This is a series of processes consisting of uranium ore mining, refining, conversion, enrichment and conversion back into uranium metal. Subsequently converted into metallic uranium nuclear fuel element manufacturing process.
Nuclear fuel is then fed into the reactor core and undergo reactions. In power or research reactors that use nuclear power reactor is the heat of fission, which is used to convert water into steam which then drive the turbine-generator, thereby generating electricity.
Spent fuel removed from the reactor to be cooled for a while, then transported to the reprocessing facility. Elements of the remaining uranium and plutonium as a result of combustion sides separated to be used again.The series of processes is called Nuclear Fuel Cycles, so the ordinary course of eyeglasses NPP operational costs become much more expensive than Diesel Power Plant (Diesel) and Steam Power (power plant). Unfortunately the application of nuclear technology is still invite the pros and cons in the community. Counter-parties, assess nuclear technology to bring more disastrous.
Reference, the bitter experience of the past, such as the tragedy of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. military in 1945, and the incidence of leaking nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, USSR (Russia) in the year 1986 which claimed the victim was not a little due to exposed to radiation.Socialization
In the midst of a counter stance, Melawi District Government, the Province of West Kalimantan (Kalbar), expressed its readiness to receive applications of Science and Technology (Science and Technology) nuclear with open arms and ready as a regional supplier of raw materials of nuclear reactors in Indonesia, for peaceful purposes.
Readiness Melawi Regent, Suman Ambrose speckle in Jakarta recently, after the Batan publish the results of exploration with French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France since 3 April 1963 to 1978, has been discovered mineral deposits 10,000 tonnes of uranium oxide with a level of accuracy speculative until measured in River Kalan, District Lower Ella. The discovery after drilling depth of 24,800 meters evaluation.
According to Suman, a counter stance based more on ignorance of the community about the strategic role of nuclear technology. Society already has a view about nuclear creepy. Suman warned about the urgency of socialization kompehensif, through language and methods that are easily digested, to eliminate the attitude of the pros and cons in the community.Suman disclosed, the stages towards the exploitation of radioactive seeds in the River Kalan should be clarified in the community. While in 2004, four governors-Borneo has also warned the central government about how important the existence of nuclear power reactors.
Observer Physics Faculty of Engineering, University of Tanjungpura Unused, Mangroves Mochammad Darimin, reminding all parties to think clearly and to see a greater interest in responding to government programs to develop and build nuclear reactors. Development of reactor-based nuclear technology has a strategic role, because it comes to authority and dignity of a nation.
The availability of mineral radioactive seed adequately, would always encourage a country is gradually building a nuclear reactor, for a variety of needs, including needs of the military (the atomic bomb and tipped with nuclear weapons). The implication is automatically also the country's nuclear reactor owners to be very calculated and feared by other nations.
In terms of quality, U-235 is a pure uranium. One hundred percent can be directly used in a variety of needs of strategic industries, including the atomic bomb as a raw material, various types of weapons tipped with nuclear or weapons of mass destruction. Even if exploration results revealed radioactive seed has ever been found in Indonesia in the category of U-235, may not be published government, given its strategic role as one of the infrastructure to support national defense, if circumstances force.
Because very young age, to become U-235 U-238 then it must first pass through the enrichment process of the reaction half-life of atomic nuclei at a certain period in the tube reactor. This process is often sparked controversy among the international community towards the country's nuclear reactor owners.
However, the impact of uranium enrichment activities, have made Pakistan, India, Japan, Israel, Australia and Iran as a country that respected its neighbors. So, like it or not, the existence of nuclear reactors used as a bargaining tool, tool harass and bully as well as a tool in diplomatic relations with other nations.
Sources: Sinar Harapan
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