Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari (5th left) and state EXCO Anfaal Saari (4th left) posing after the Selangor Empowered Women Scholarship Cohort 4 presentation in Shah Alam yesterday. — KK Sham/The Star
SHAH ALAM: Selangor will focus its nuclear technology venture on capacity building, dispatching officers and engineers overseas to specialise in nuclear-related fields, particularly power generation, says Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari.
"There have been a lot of misunderstandings about nuclear energy, so we will need to explore the different models overseas.
"We cannot continue relying on fossil-based energy sources such as gas or coal, as the availability of such sources will decrease in future. And we cannot be completely dependent on the import (of energy sources), as the cost will be more expensive,” he said.
Amirudin was responding to questions after witnessing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between Wanita Berdaya Selangor and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on Tuesday (Nov 18).
The signing ceremony was held on the sidelines of the Selangor State Assembly sitting at Bangunan Dewan Negeri Selangor, Shah Alam.
He stressed that the ideal is to look into nuclear power generation as a clean energy technology.
As such, he said Selangor is setting a five-year target to explore the various models available on nuclear energy, develop a plan of action and blueprint as well as have community engagements.
"Since we are looking into the possibility of implementing nuclear energy, we need to first build human capacity and have our human resources ready," said Amirudin.
He said about 10 people would be identified during the initial stage to be sent to nuclear research institutes in China or other countries.
Yesterday, Amirudin told the state assembly that Selangor expected to begin adopting nuclear energy as a clean power source in five years’ time
He said that the state was in the early stages of exploring the technology, including building technical expertise.
