Nuclear energy development self-management concept to support national energy security and national defense (case study: commercial NPP plans in the West Kalimantan region)

Abstract

Indonesia’s energy consumption is still increasing, including in the West Kalimantan Region, by 8.2% growth in electricity customers. During this time, West Kalimantan still fulfilling its energy needs in imports around 30% of energy supply (200 MW) from Sarawak, Malaysia. This condition can weaken national energy security and national sovereignty because it has not independently met its energy needs from domestic sources. At the same time, the potential for local energy sources in West Kalimantan is to get uranium deposits of 45,730 tons, which are nuclear fuel. Qualitative Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) research method to find the concept of self-management based on 4A (Availability, Affordability, Acceptability, Accessibility) + 1S (Sustainability). The results of the self-management concept obtained by integrating aspects: (1) Accessibility and Acceptability in the form of priorities for improving top-down and bottom-up cross-sectoral coordination management systems, namely the central and regional governments in the development of nuclear power plants with the involvement of local communities from the beginning of planning; (2) Affordability of making technical designs by BATAN with SMR (Small Modular Reactor) technology in the construction of commercial-scale nuclear power plants in terms of the availability of local resources as nuclear raw materials.

Site suitability-based spatial-weighted multicriteria analysis for nuclear power plants in Indonesia

“…West Kalimantan is divided into two cities and six districts, Sambas, Bengkayang, Singkawang, Pontianak, Mempawah, Kubu Raya, Kayong Utara, Ketapang, and has a 5.41 million population [ 31 ]. This province has become an area projected for building re-newable electrical energy sources to support various development projects, such as nuclear and solar power plants [ 1 , 32 , 33 ]. Subsequently, this study employed 14 parameters to determine the appropriate sites for nuclear power plants based on criteria from IAEA, BAPETEN, and BATAN, as shown in Table 1 .…”

Uncovering the Distribution Zones of Uranium and Thorium in Bangka Island

“…Indonesia needs to introduce nuclear power to improve the atmospheric environment and to support sustainable energy growth [6]. The utilization of nuclear energy could significantly support the number of energy consumption ratio from New and Renewable Energy sources (NRE) in Indonesia on a large scale [7].…”

Analysis of Saving Electrical Load Costs With a Hybrid Source of PLN-PLTS 500 Wp

“…In the National Energy Policy (KEN), one of the national energy management targets is to achieve a national energy mix consisting of four primary energy types, namely Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy (EBT), with the target of achieving eacheach of these primary energies in 2025 (Hidayat et al, 2022;Simanjuntak et al, 2022;Santosa et al, 2021), namely: a. the role of New Energy and Renewable Energy is at least 23%, b. the role of petroleum is less than 25%, c. the role of coal is at least 30%, and d. the role of natural gas is at least 22% Fossil energy, which has been the main focus in energy consumption, has resulted in the depletion of non-renewable natural resources and the increasing impact of environmental damage. This has prompted various calls to reduce and limit the use of fossil energy and replace it with renewable New Energy (EBT).…”