| Nuclear Power Plans Under Fire |
By BBC - Caribbean
April 24, 2007
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| Suriname's plans to construct a nuclear power facility have prompted a warning from the Belize-based Caricom Climate Change Centre that nuclear energy is a big risk. |
Suriname, which is a Caricom member state, wants to build an aluminium smelter and nuclear power plant at Groot-Chatillon, about 32 kilometres south of the country's capital, Paramaribo, and is examining the feasibility of such a project.
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| adviser Ulric Trotz has acknowledged that nuclear power does not spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. |
| But he says nuclear waste can affect wide expanses of land. |
| "It's (the nuclear energy) clean but the biggest question is do we have the technical capacity in our countries to manage such technology and manage it safely," Dr Trotz pointed out. |
| And he questions why Caricom member nations should get into nuclear energy when they have consistently complained against nuclear waste shipments accessing the Caribbean sea. |
| "Now what sort of signals do you send if you yourself now decide that you are going to be using nuclear energy in the region," the Caricom Climate Change Centre official queried. |
| He recommends that the Caribbean should continue to explore using bio mass, solar energy, wind energy, and hydro power that do not emit greenhouse gases. |
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