From TV Without Frontiers (www.tvxs.gr) Prof. Dr. Tanay Sidki Uyar Director, Marmara University New Technologies Research and Application Center President, EUROSOLAR Turkey Vice President, EUROSOLAR (European Association for Renewable Energy)
1. How do you comment the will of Turkish government to create a nuclear station in Akkuyu? Do you think that the destruction in Fukushima is able to affect the whole process? Do you believe that finally Turkey will implement the project?
I believe that building a nuclear power plant in Akkuyu or at any other location in our global prison is not a good idea.The cradle to grave costs of nuclear power plants are too high even if there is no accident. Calculated decommissioning costs of 19 nuclear plants in UK is 91 billion Pounds. Nuclear waste disposal is the biggest problem which keeps USA and Germany away from building new nuclear power plants. Citizens all over the world do not want to live next to nuclear power plants from which they need to be protected. German public risk assessment authorities calculated the possibility of having a Chernobyl scale accident in Europe as 16 %. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents this has been already proved. Turkey has huge resources of renewable energy and can reach to 100 % renewable energy utilisation in 5 years if energy end use efficiency measures are taken.