Defying all odds with nuclear power

Balancing act: Researchers conducting their daily monitoring of the nuclear reactor facility at the National Research and Innovation Agency in Bandung. — AFP

THE country is hoping going nuclear can help it meet soaring energy demand while taming emissions, but faces serious challenges to its goal of a first small modular reactor by 2032.

Its first experiment with nuclear energy dates to February 1965, when then-president Sukarno inaugurated a test reactor.