YOGYAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X states, the existence of a nuclear reactor in Yogyakarta Kartini does not have to worry about.Therefore, nuclear reactors run by the National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan), it was not in the red line area of the earthquake.
"The area was not included in the red line. The right to worry that fall into the red line," Sultan said on Friday (18/03/2011) in Yogyakarta.
The Sultan's statement responding to concerns following the destruction Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, an earthquake and tsunami. Given Indonesia, especially Yogyakarta also experienced a devastating earthquake in 2006, feared a similar incident could happen in a nuclear reactor Kartini Yogyakarta.
Kartini nuclear reactor complex located at the Technology Center for Accelerator and Material Process in Babarsari Batan, a densely populated area in downtown Yogyakarta. Nuclear reactor which was established on an area of 17,000 square meter facility was utilized for the development and application of nuclear analysis techniques, testing of nuclear instrumentation, and facilities for training, and research in the field of reactor physics and reactor control.
Director of the Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) Yogyakarta Suparlan opinion, although not in a red track earthquakes, but Batan nuclear reactor is located in downtown Yogyakarta. Supposedly, the government made initial anticipation for events such as the Japanese did not occur in Yogyakarta.
"Measures of natural disasters are often not in accordance with our estimates. For example, the earthquake that struck Yogyakarta in 2006 was also hit areas that previously did not predict an earthquake prone. Therefore, early anticipation of the effects of a nuclear reactor Batan also need to think about," he explained .
Regarding this, the Head of Accelerator Technology Center complex Reactor and Process Materials Puradwi Batan Ismu not yet willing to give a statement.
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