Fri Aug 20, 2010By Prak Chan Thul
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia is looking into nuclear power as a future energy source to meet rising domestic demand, although construction of a plant is still years away, a top government official said on Friday.
Cambodian scientists have begun to study nuclear technology in a bid to keep apace with Southeast Asian neighbours planning to build plants in the next few years, said Ith Praing, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy.
"(Nuclear power) is a possibility because our neighbours are doing it, so we have to study it and see how dangerous it is," Ith Praing told Reuters.
"It's still a long way to go, even by 2030, we will not have used all of our resources," he added.
Ith Praing said an assessment of the potential costs on a nuclear energy programme had yet to be made and the government was still focussed on hydropower as an electricity source.
Cambodia last year said it wanted to attract about $3 billion (1 billion pounds) in foreign investment to build six hydropower plants by 2018.
Vietnam, which is currently chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), last month called on members to consider using nuclear power for peaceful purposes as Asia faces rising energy needs to fuel economic growth.
Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation has offered to help ASEAN countries to build nuclear power plants and develop its safe use in a region where energy agencies estimates primary power demands will climb 2.5 percent annually until 2030.
Cambodia's neighbour, Vietnam, plans to start building its first nuclear power plant in 2014 using Russian technology, a state-run newspaper reported in June.
Thailand is looking to develop nuclear power to reduce its dependence on natural gas and is planning to build four 1,000-MW nuclear power plants at a total cost of about $8 billion (5 billion pounds).
Two of these plants are expected to feed power into the grid in 2020 and the remaining two in 2021.
(Editing by Martin Petty and Jason Szep)
Cambodian scientists have begun to study nuclear technology in a bid to keep apace with Southeast Asian neighbours planning to build plants in the next few years, said Ith Praing, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy.
"(Nuclear power) is a possibility because our neighbours are doing it, so we have to study it and see how dangerous it is," Ith Praing told Reuters.
"It's still a long way to go, even by 2030, we will not have used all of our resources," he added.
Ith Praing said an assessment of the potential costs on a nuclear energy programme had yet to be made and the government was still focussed on hydropower as an electricity source.
Cambodia last year said it wanted to attract about $3 billion (1 billion pounds) in foreign investment to build six hydropower plants by 2018.
Vietnam, which is currently chair of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), last month called on members to consider using nuclear power for peaceful purposes as Asia faces rising energy needs to fuel economic growth.
Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation has offered to help ASEAN countries to build nuclear power plants and develop its safe use in a region where energy agencies estimates primary power demands will climb 2.5 percent annually until 2030.
Cambodia's neighbour, Vietnam, plans to start building its first nuclear power plant in 2014 using Russian technology, a state-run newspaper reported in June.
Thailand is looking to develop nuclear power to reduce its dependence on natural gas and is planning to build four 1,000-MW nuclear power plants at a total cost of about $8 billion (5 billion pounds).
Two of these plants are expected to feed power into the grid in 2020 and the remaining two in 2021.
(Editing by Martin Petty and Jason Szep)
12 comments:
Study how to make a chair first, Khmer dumbass
Khmer makes more electricity to light their Red light district business, Phnom penh is full of whores and child sex
Thailand is fully known as the Whore nation to all the arab men. Thai women is known for one thing,
Bang and Cock suckers. Ah thai dumbshit!!!
Hmmmm...Now i get it,,why are so many ladyboys born in Thailand..? Because,thai made a Buddha statue like a woman figure..i guess thailand betraying the true, Buddha was a guy not like a ladyboy..so the mother nature have to punished them..they have to born as a freak..FUCK SIAM FUCK THAILAND...
12:07AM
you are more FUCKING dumbass..you don't even know how to use a chopstick..MOTHER FUCKER..SIAM just hold on to a grip real thight..KHMER IS MOVING forward really fast pace..before SIAM know it..SIAM gonna left behind ...FUCK THE JEALOUS ASS SIAM..
All the Khmer dogs are barking, shut the fuck up, I will give you shit. YES, I WILL FUCK YOUR MOTHER HARD IN BANGKOK
Khmer is beggar of the SEA, ASIA, and the world's dumbshit
3:09 AM
your FUCKING MOTHER WHORE is wotking in the WHORE HOUSE in BANGCOCK(BANGKOK)really! thay is why you know a lot being from a whore's pussy..you are the one that born from a WHORE ASS pussy mom..you are so stupid you came into khmer website you don't even notice that.. and you're calling us khmer a dumbass...you are so stupid,,just go FUCK YOUR MOM that would give you be a bit brighter for your STUPID BRAIN...HAAHAHA MOTHER FUCKER STUPID IDIOT SIAM..
No no, your mom comes to work as whore in BKK, I gave her few bucks and she offer me her ass. She also told me that she made love to a dog and gave birth to her son. KHMER DOG, 555
FIRST THEY SAID 2020!!!
I'LL BE GONE BY 2030!!!
cambodia needs more electricity for economic growth and rising standard of living. we must modernized our electricity generation, etc... we cannot afford to be lacked behind the rest of the world for too long already! it's about time to think energy sufficiency in cambodia. god bless cambodia.
cambodia can use nuclear power for electricity, you know!
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