[NYTr] ASEAN Nations Flirt with Nuke Energy

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Nuclear Energy in the Sight of ASEAN Countries

Havana, August 7 (acn) Nuclear power has increasingly become an option 
as source of energy to member countries of the Association of Southeast 
Asian Nations (ASEAN), where several nuclear power stations are 
scheduled to be built in the coming decades.

Six ASEAN countries are either considering or building nuclear power 
plants in cooperation with Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam, according 
to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), citing an article published by the 
Manila Times,.

These nuclear power stations should start operations by 2016, 2021 and 
2015, respectively.

According to the paper, Myanmar asked help from Russia to build a 
nuclear reactor and to train technicians; while Malaysia and the 
Philippines are still considering their nuclear strategies.

Hans Holger Rogner, head of the economic commission of the United 
Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was quoted by Manila 
Times as attributing ASEAN's pursuit of the nuclear option as due to 
rising fuel prices, energy security concerns, climate change and 
pollution.