Public understanding vital before embarking on nuclear power programme


Dateline 2017-04-30, Astro Awani:

While the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has certified Malaysia’s readiness to “make an informed decision” on introducing nuclear power, there remains a question mark over whether the public is ready to embrace this particular alternative energy source.

Many are haunted by the disaster that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan in March 2011 following a massive earthquake and tsunami, as well as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine where an accident in 1986 caused radiation-related fatalities.

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