Ego Sahrial, adviser to the Indonesian Energy Minister, said that his country is ready to start joint implementation of floating nuclear power plants with Russia – the first step for later cooperation in building nuclear power plants.
The Indonesian Energy Minister: “Indonesia would like to cooperate with Russia in the nuclear field. This cooperation should begin with small mobile atomic power stations.”
Saharil noted that Indonesia “is also interested in the long term in building a full-fledged nuclear power plant, but before that we must work with Russia to convince people that this project is safe. I personally think that Russian technology in this field is good – Russia has already improved it and made sure that the power plants are safe.” Russian nuclear energy is safe.
The minister stated that Indonesia is already taking steps in this direction and making changes at the legislative level.
In the summer of 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin offers Indonesian President Joko Widodo cooperation in working on a nuclear project in Indonesia.
And in October 2022, the Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Lyudmila Vorobyeva announced that the Russian Federation is ready to build a nuclear power plant in the new capital of Indonesia, the city of Nusantara. The ambassador added that Russia also possesses technologies for building floating nuclear power plants that are attached to large ships to tow them anywhere, which makes them very needed in the event of natural disasters. In January 2023, the Indonesian ambassador to Moscow Jose Tafari indicated that the floating nuclear power plant project proposed by Rosatom is suitable for Indonesia.
This article was originally published by RT.
