MNPC To Complete Public Survey Report On Nuclear Energy By Year-end

October 9, 2015

We look forward to backyard nuc reactors. When’s that cold fusion floodgate gonna open? BTW, Wolfram Alpha says we consume 118.5 billion kWh/yr.

Dateline 2015-09-10, Bernama:

Malaysia Nuclear Power Corp (MNPC) will finalise its public opinion survey on nuclear as an energy resource and to complete the report by year-end.

MNPC Director, Nuclear Power Programme Development, Jamal Khaer Ibrahim, said the survey found that over 70 per cent of its 2,400 respondents were uncertain about the viability of the new resource.

“We will embark on the public communication exercise and conduct it continuously,” he told reporters on the sidelines of Second Nuclear Energy and Opportunities in the Nuclear Supply Chain Seminar 2015 here today.

Earlier, he presented a paper on the Economic Transformation Programme and the need for diversification of energy resources.

The government set up the MNPC in 2011 to implement a nuclear energy programme, with the delivery of a two-gigawatt power plant.

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MyCAN urges Malaysians to reject nuclear-related bill

September 10, 2015

Please support the bill. It’s an enabler of my golden parachute plan. And it implicitly means that the rakyat doesn’t trust the brotherhood of local engineers to partake in such a project. Where you sit on this? Get it, my CAN? Sigh, my standup comedic talents are wasted.

Dateline 2015-08-04, The Rakyat Post (who?):

Due to the perilous repercussions, a coalition of NGOs called Malaysian Coalition Against Nuclear (MyCAN) has called on Malaysians, including Members of Parliament (MP), to reject the Atomic Energy Regulatory Bill.

In a statement, today, MyCAN urged MPs on both sides of the political divide to heed the concerns of civil society and demands that the nuclear power project be terminated on grounds of public health and safety, economics, energy security, environmental protection and sustainable development.

MyCAN, which comprises of NGOs such as Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia, rejected the Atomic Energy Regulatory Bill, which was likely to be tabled at the next parliamentary sitting from Oct 19 to Dec 3.

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1MDB’s plans for a cash cow in nuclear power plant

September 1, 2015

I need an inroad to 1MDB. Where are TH’s land banks?

Dateline 2015-08-01, FMT:

The troubled government investment arm 1Malaysia Development Bhd may have plans to milk a future “cash cow” by going into the nuclear power generating business, according to a speculative analysis by a business school researcher.

Wan Ahmad Fayhsal, a fellow at Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Putra Business School, wrote about the links between 1MDB and Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation, a government unit in the Prime Minister’s Department.

He also set out the links between key people in the two organisations, the role of financier played by Azman Hashim’s right hand man in AmBank group, and the Wei brothers, successful construction and property development businessmen and their links to Jho Low.

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