Hopefully it can be implemented from the PP for the purification of the processing of radioactive material
Jakarta (Antara) – The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) prepares regulations for processing radioactive materials, such as Uranium in West -Kalimantan, which must be used to meet the energy needs of Indonesia for nuclear power plants (PLTN).
“We prepare the PP for (government regulation). Hopefully it can be implemented from the PP for the purification of radioactive material processing,” said Vice Minister of Energie and Mineral Resources Yuliot Tanjung when he was met at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Office, Jakarta, Friday.
The processing of uranium, Yuliot said, entered the realm of the radioactive business area. The government is currently cultivating its licenses, because radioactive business areas require tighter supervision for mining.
The stakeholders who will later be involved in the processing of uranium to nuclear power plants (PLTN) are the National Research and Innovation Agency (Brin), the Nuclear Personel Supervision Agency (Bapeten) and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
“We will also pay attention to environmental aspects. What we currently order is the purification of processing,” said Yuliot.
In the PT PLN (Perso) Electricity Supply Business Plan (Ruptl) for the period 2025-2034, the potential source of energy sources in West-Kalimantan in the form of uranium, hydropower, biomass, biogas and coal is.
Uranium is the most important fuel in a nuclear reactor. The Ruptl revealed that there was a potential of uranium of 24,112 tons in Melawi Regency, West Kalimantan.
However, the use of nuclear as a primary energy is still awaiting a government policy that is supported by the feasibility study of the PLTN construction.
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia had previously said that the government focused on Sumatra and Kalimantan as a destination for the construction of the nuclear power plant (PLTN).
250 Megawatts (MW) are built in Sumatra and the remaining 250 MW is being built in Kalimantan.
The construction of the nuclear power plant is part of the addition of power plants from new energy and renewable energy.
In the business plan of the electrical power supply (Ruptl) 2025-2034, the target of adding power plant capacity is 69.5 Gigawatt (GW).
61 percent of the addition of power plants, namely 42.6 GW, from EBT; 15 percent or 10.3 I am storage Or storage.
And 24 percent or 16.6 GW of extra power plants come energy from fossil resources, such as gas of 10.3 GW and coal of 6.3 GW.
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