Nuclear power plants

Nuclear Power has gained confidence and became a viable option for many economies in the APEC Region. Nuclear Power Plants were generally considered to be a mature technology and clean and relatively safe to use. But after the unfortunate natural disaster in Fukushima where nuclear reactors were literally destroyed by the gigantic tsunami, the future use of nuclear power became uncertain for newcomer countries. Even today the impacts of the accident are still being felt by the Japanese Society and it is not easy to overcome. Since then some reflections have been made and several actions have been taken by almost all users of nuclear power. New approaches such as passive features for core cooling in case of accidents, compact and modular reactors are being adopted. Hence Nuclear Reactors are safer and present much lower potential risk than before. Therefore it may be timely that various APEC Economies share experiences and discuss on the future use of nuclear power and other intermediate and long term preparations related to its usage, safety, safeguards and security in economies .As a potential user of this form of energy, Thailand takes initiatives in providing a forum for this activity in order that interested economies could revise their energy policy and options more objectively.

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