If you simply send nuclear energy to a TV as a certain kind of Van Lingdan that can save us or the earth, it will be wrong.Regarding nuclear energy, there are still too many questions that need to be answered urgently.Fundamentally, the world must deal with climate change. A more practical plan may be to explore whether we should prevent the injuries of such energy consumption and face the efficiency of energy utilization, rather than vigorously develop nuclear energy.
The global energy crisis and climate crisis are intertwined, exposing the shortcomings that currently depend on the economic system that seriously depends on fossil fuels.As the role and benefit of various alternative energy and benefits are imminent, many countries have also begun to re -examine the more controversial nuclear power generation, including in Asia, and the nuclear energy that was out of favor seemed to have re -born.Interestingly, Singapore also has an open attitude towards new nuclear technology.
In recent months alone, the author has heard about the local people on several different occasions.Some of the private enterprises leaders who have developed private enterprises in the private sector in the past after the government agencies have served as a high school, and they have great confidence in the potential and safety of nuclear power generation, and even publicly stated that nuclear energy or the only large -scale replacement of fossil fuel can be replaced by large -scale large -scale replacement of fossil fuels.Energy.
At the Singapore International Energy Week held last month, the Minister of Trade and Industry Yan Jinyong pointed out in a keynote speech that although Singapore did not make any decisions on nuclear power generation, the government was closely concerned about related development.Although this is not the indicator of the Singapore government energy policy, to a large extent, the Minister's speech clarifies that Singapore is highly interested in nuclear energy.
Last year, in a report, the Singapore Energy Market Administration also imagined how nuclear energy would meet the one -tenth -tenth energy demand of Singapore by 2050, especially in other low -carbon power generation options.In the case, nuclear energy may help the country to achieve the climate goals of net zero carbon emissions.This is greatly different from that it is not suitable for Nuclear technology about nuclear technology about Singapore about 10 years ago.
What excites the industry and governments is the new development of the Small Modular Reactors (SMR) commercialization.As the name suggests, the small modular reaction furnace is a reduced version of the nuclear power plant. The advantage is the biggest bottleneck of the development of nuclear power now, including it may be relatively safe, the price is relatively low, and the construction time is short. It is currently regarded as a new new nuclear industry.opportunity.
It is different from the design of a traditional large and centralized nuclear power plant design with a capacity of 900 MW more than 900 MW or more. The SMR device may be only 10 MW, even less than today's general gas power plants;The crew can be split into multiple parts, which is favorable for mass production.In response to security, Yan Jinyong pointed out in his speech that the new reaction furnace design can reduce the possibility of losing control and disaster failure due to the use of a passive cooling system to reduce the chain of nuclear power facilities such as furnace heart.
For Singapore, nuclear energy power generation has another great advantage: that is, it is different from the renewable energy that is vulnerable to weather and time changes from solar and wind power, which can continue to power generation.
The lack of energy in Singapore also seems to have an impact on public opinion.
When the Eastern Eastern Eastern Institute of Singapore recently released the annual climate survey, Zhou Xianglong, a climatic scientist who is currently servingIt is currently hovering around 15%, which is surprised by the people of other countries in Southeast Asia, which surprises him.
He further pointed out that even with small SMRs, considering the limited area of Singapore and the density of the urban population, he was very curious about where the nuclear power facilities should be set.
If a commercial scale is a nuclear power plant, there is currently only one in Southeast Asia, but the power plant located in the Philippines has never been opened.Today, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam are discussing the use of SMR.At the same event, Senior Researcher, a senior researcher in charge of climate survey, pointed out that she believes that the acceptance of nuclear energy will continue to increase; if there is really a need, there may be a nuclear power plant in Southeast AsiaSelect the consensus.Due to complex geopolitics and facilities restrictions, it is still unknown whether people in various countries can obtain energy equally and ensure that people in remote areas can also use electricity.
Of course, the impact of climate warming in the foreseeable future has greatly changed everyone's risk calculation of nuclear energy, but this does not mean that nuclear power generation is no longer risky.In addition to security issues, when talking about nuclear energy, how to deal with nuclear waste is also a question that must be faced and discussed.At the international level, although the European Union defined nuclear energy as green energy last year, there are still quite large differences inside.In April of this year, Germany officially closed its last three nuclear power plants, an end to the elimination of nuclear energy sports for more than 20 years.
In actual operation, the special building materials and technical workers and professional engineers needed for building SMR are limited.Some experts estimate that starting the nuclear power generation infrastructure plan must be at least 10 years of preparation time.
At present, one more option is good, but if you simply send nuclear energy to a TV as a certain kind of Van Lingdan that can save us or the earth, it will be wrong.Regarding nuclear energy, there are still too many questions that need to be answered urgently.
In addition, the increasingly popular artificial intelligence and data centers are also pushing high energy consumption, which seems to be the reason for considering the use of nuclear power supply.But fundamentally, the world to cope with climate change, more practical solutions may be to discuss whether we should stop such energy consumption injuries and face the efficiency of energy utilization, rather than vigorously develop nuclear energy.
The author is regional environmental media and consulting companies
Assistant Director of the Editor Department of Eco-BUSINESS
