Archive for June, 2009
3 smuggled baby orangutans rescued in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — A Malaysian wildlife official says authorities have rescued three smuggled orangutan babies from an ostrich breeder and a zoo.
Saharudin Anan, enforcement director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, says one orangutan confiscated from the breeder is an infant still being bottle-fed. He says the other two were at a [...]
GOLD vs HUMAN LIVES
KUALA LUMPUR – During the Second World War, hydrogen cyanide was used in the Nazi gas chambers in the concentration camps of Auswitz and Maidanek that killed millions of people. When Germany was defeated, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, his henchmen including Himmler and Goering and mistress Eva Braun committed suicide by taking sodium cyanide.
Cyanide is [...]
MALAYSIA CAN START SMALL WITH NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME
(Bernama) — Malaysia’s nuclear power programme can start with a small nuclear power plant as a power demonstrator reactor before larger and more cost-competitive plants are built, the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry said today.
“This was the approach taken by Japan, which started with a power demonstration reactor generating only 13 megawatts of electricity from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jong: New reactors are safe
-New Straits Times-
KUALA LUMPUR: The lessons of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have been learnt and technological advances since then have made nuclear plants safe.
Nuclear scientist Jong Hyun Kim claimed that nuclear reactors were so safe that if you wanted to make an aircraft as safe as a nuclear reactor, it would never fly.
“That’s [...]
Cheaper and very much less polluting
- New Straits Times-
KUALA LUMPUR: As the country’s energy bill increases because of increasing demand and depleting energy resources, there is a need for alternative energy.
According to the Malaysia Energy Centre (MEC), Malaysia registered a gross electricity generation of 101,325 gigawatt hours (GWh). One gigawatt hour is equivalent to one billion watts.
The electricity consumption [...]
‘We have expertise to go nuclear’
- New Straits Times-
Atomic Energy Licensing Board chairman Prof Datuk Dr Noramly Muslim
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has the expertise to build its own nuclear power plant and earlier than scheduled.
Atomic Energy Licensing Board chairman Prof Datuk Dr Noramly Muslim said the country had around 80 PhD holders with expertise in nuclear engineering technology.
“Some [...]
CrossTalk: Is nuclear energy the answer?
-New Straits Times-
Fresh nuclear debate was stirred earlier this month when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced in South Korea that Malaysia would be developing a reactor. Dr Nahrul Khair Alang Mohd Rashid, president of the Malaysian Nuclear Society, and Dr Ronald McCoy, president of the Physicians for Peace and Social Responsibility, pitch their [...]
Negri turns down RM8bil investment
-The Star-
NILAI: The state government has rejected an RM8bil investment from a company based in the Middle East to set up a petrochemical plant in Port Dickson.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said the state authorities had decided not to accept the investment as it was a potential environment hazard.
“We want to preserve our mangroves [...]
Sabah and Sarawak can go big in rubber plantations
-The Star-
KUALA LUMPUR: Sabah and Sarawak have the potential to be major players in domestic rubber plantations due to the availability of large tracts of land suitable for commercial agriculture, a senior official from the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) said.
“The additional new planting of 25,000ha in Sabah and 5,000ha in Sarawak by government agencies under [...]
Go for solar power, not nuclear energy
I READ with utmost concern of TNB’s plan to implement the first nuclear plant by 2025, as reported in the Star on June 23. My immediate question is, has TNB made any detailed study on the viability of solar energy before deciding on nuclear power plant (NPP)?
For TNB to invest RM6.9 billion to build a [...]
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