{"id":132819,"date":"2023-03-08T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132819"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:29:37","slug":"nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/08\/nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sugath Kulatunga<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In a recent media article with the title\u2019 G<strong>ovt\u2019s <\/strong><strong>a<\/strong><strong>mazing death wish for nuclear plant on Lankan soil<\/strong><strong>\u2019 was typical of selective reporting. It would have been fair by the reading public if the scales of the Chernobyl plant and the proposed Sri Lanka plant were indicated. Chernobyl was of <\/strong>720 MW capacity. I understand that the proposed units in Sri Lanka would be only of 100 MW. It is noted that the present nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers have 194 MW power units. To complete the picture the information on the current status of our neighbor India could be of relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India currently has <strong>22 operational nuclear reactors<\/strong> in 7 nuclear power plants with an installed capacity of 6780 MW and plans to build more nuclear power plants to increase the production of clean energy. The government has approved five new sites for nuclear power plants to build 10 700-MW pressurized heavy water reactors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The major nuclear disasters were <strong>Fukushima in (2011) and <\/strong><strong>Chernobyl disaster<\/strong><strong> (1986), Since then technology and safety measures have vastly improved. It has been estimated that over a 25 year period in<\/strong> an average town of 150,000 people number of deaths by energy source due to pollution would be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Coal: <\/strong>25 people would die prematurely every year;<\/li><li><strong>Oil:<\/strong> 18 people would die prematurely every year;<\/li><li><strong>Gas:<\/strong> 3 people would die prematurely every year;<\/li><li><strong>Nuclear:<\/strong> In an average year nobody would die \u2013 only every 33 years would someone die.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let there be a proper cost benefit and risk analysis before rejecting any proposal. There is no need to create a bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugath Kulatunga In a recent media article with the title\u2019 Govt\u2019s amazing death wish for nuclear plant on Lankan soil\u2019 was typical of selective reporting. It would have been fair by the reading public if the scales of the Chernobyl plant and the proposed Sri Lanka plant were indicated. Chernobyl was of 720 MW capacity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugath-kulatunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}