I saw this TV interview with the first Kuwaiti nuclear power engineer, Naser Al Sayegh, who graduated from the U.K and currently doing Masters degree in one of the top 6 colleges in the world and was offered a job in France nuclear power sector with dreamy salary and benefits.
In this interview, he explains the concept of nuclear energy and its great benefits if used in Kuwait, imagine one nuclear power plant can produce electricity for whole Kuwait and save billions of KD’s, I remember there was a suggestion to build nuclear energy plants in Kuwait but nothing so far, do you think its a good idea?
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it’s true nuclear energy is a good idea but it could only work in countries that are big in size and more technologiclly advanced and we live in a country that import every thing so i don’t see how this could ever work her it would be like a disaster waiting to happen.
Yes I share your concerns, such technology needs an advanced emergency plan and future planning; two major things that we lack in Kuwait but if we imply it on a smaller scale we could save a lot and solve the power problem for once and all!
Last year, the Kuwaiti government admitted that it scrapped the idea of nuclear powerplants after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. We need the nuclear energy badly, but with a limited geographical size, the harm is too much to risk for.
This is what I thought too, the engineer in the interview explains in detail why Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred, their reactor was built in 1960 and was planned to shutdown because it wasn’t fir for service anymore yet Japanese government postponed the shutting down and the earth quake happened. Also there were mistakes in the design itself such as placing the cooling system by the sea and this is where the earth quake happened.
Again, I share your opinion we live in a small country (geographical-wise) and such technology could do more harm than good if anything goes wrong.
Interview w/ him JUST POSTED!: http://thefixturesq8.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/interview-naser-al-sayegh-first-kuwaiti-nuclear-engineer/
Great interview The Fixture Q8, enjoyed reading it a lot thanks big time
You are most welcome Tazmania I’m so glad you enjoyed it !