Nuclear Reactors to Support De-dieselization Program

BRIN is designing the Peluit-40 nuclear reactor to replace diesel power plants, claiming it to be safer.

Dody Hidayat

August 26, 2024

ACCORDING to Muksin Aji Setiawan, fourth-generation nuclear reactors should be able to dispel negative views about nuclear power plants (PLTNs). The researcher from the Nuclear Reactor Technology Research Center at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) believes that this reactor has enhanced safety features due to its high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) design.

“This design makes it virtually impossible for inciden

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