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Article: MALAYSIA CAN START SMALL WITH N-POWER PROGRAMME: MINISTER.
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- June 30, 2009
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 Asia Pulse - Malaysia's nuclear power programme can start with a small nuclear power plant as a power demonstrator reactor before larger and more cost-competitive plants are built, the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry said Monday.
"This was the approach taken by Japan, which started with a power demonstration reactor generating only 13 megawatts of electricity from 1963 to 1982 before building 53 larger plants with capacities of between 340 and 1,300 megawatts," said deputy minister Fadillah Yusof.
"Despite being the only country in the world that has suffered the devastating effects of nuclear radiation, nuclear energy ...