Basta: We Should Remove Moratorium on Construction of Nuclear Power Plants in Serbia

The director of the PUE Beogradske elektrane (Belgrade Power Plants), Rade Basta, has sent an open letter to the prime minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, and the minister of mining and energy of Serbia, Zorana Mihajlovic, asking them to consider the removal of the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants in the Republic of Serbia.

– The production of energy at nuclear power plants is cheaper and cleaner compared to conventional ways of energy production. In thermal power plants, there’s a huge emission of sulfur-dioxide and carbon-dioxide into the environment. The waste gas filtering technologies which need to be installed in line with the latest standards are practically as expensive as the technologies for the production of energy. In nuclear power plants, there are no such challenges. All things considered, nuclear production is cheaper, and the same goes for the exploitation – Basta said, according to the company’s website.

He added that the investment repayment period was slightly longer, but said that this shouldn’t be the deciding factor.

For that reason, he has invited the Government of the Republic of Serbia to remove the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants in Serbia and send, as soon as possible, invitations to the USA and the EU for the purpose of the opening of a scientific research center for nuclear technologies in cooperation with the Vinca Instittue, which has great experience in working with nuclear technologies and professional, knowledgeable staff, who, however, need help in the transfer of knowledge and technologies from the best nuclear technology experts and who need them to work together on projects of interest to both countries.

He also pointed out that nuclear energy was the energy of the future, because it is clean and reliable and the only one which doesn’t produce the greenhouse effect in the process of the production of electrical energy.

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