Nautilus in the news 2010

January

Indonesia's Govt revives interest in nuclear power plant plan, Beverley Wang, Asia Pacific, ABC, 28 January 2010

WANG: Professor Richard Tanter of RMIT's Nautilus Institute has written extensively about Indonesia's nuclear energy plans, and says though Indonesia's burgeoning democracy has taken the right steps in splitting its its national nuclear atomic energy agency, BATAN, from its national nuclear regulatory body, BAPETEN, the country's history of corruption in government must be taken into account.

TANTER: Indonesia has followed the appropriate advice from the IAEA and has ratified all the important agreements preparatory to starting an nuclear power plant. The difficulty is that corruption is very serious in Indonesia and it's made much more serious in this case following a corruption case inside BAPETEN itself 2 yearss ago when 2 senior officials along with a Member of Parliament went to jail for five or six years for a serious issue. So in other words there are real doubts about the regulatory of BAPETEN and other parts of the Indonesian system.