-If you are in Malaysia can you digest this facts?. Original article HERE
A former nuclear engineer said that the Malaysian government was ‘toying’ with a force it cannot possibly contain with its nuclear power plant ambitions. - Ahmad Bungsu Hamid Tuah, 63
-To generate electricty, uranium-235 rods are pumped into uranium-238 cylinders to create fission (nuclear chain reaction),
-Several by-products are created and one them is plutonium-239, the most toxic material in the world
-Plutonium-239 is also one of key elements used to produce nuclear weapons
-In the US, the plutonium and other toxic waste material from nuclear plants are buried deep underground in the deserts of Nevada. Where and how does Malaysia propose to dispose of these toxic materials, especially plutonium-239?
-If you take one gram of plutonium, divide it into one million pieces, the one millionth of a gram of plutonium is enough to cause cancer in an individual.
-When great powers such as Japan and Russia are not able to contain a nuclear crisis, how will a developing nation like Malaysia be able to handle a nuclear crisis?
-And if our neighbour suffers another volcanic eruption like in 1883, our nuclear plants will be damaged
The original article can be found here
