EnergyAsia: Lee Kuan Yew at IEW 2008 (1)

Lee Kuan Yew discusses Singapore's energy policies at IEW 2008.

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[yawnzzzzzz]

@duckyboo83 On the other hand, building the nuclear power plant requires manpower to operate. Simply sealing off the entrance of the tunnel, leaving the people inside trapped with the radiation? No way. There's no difference in saying the government killed these people. Furthermore, as technology improves day by day, destroying a powerplant a few kilometres underground would be a piece of cake in the near future.

[yawnzzzzzz]

@duckyboo83 Firstly, it's very expensive to construct a tunnel under the sea. It's a huge project and based on international border, we cannot build something out in the sea where the land does not belong to us. Gaining the authority to build it, might end up in a very troublesome situation and what's more, it isn't cost-efficient to do it. Building an underground tunnel in the sea would have distrupted marine lifes which would raise environmentalist attention. (cont'd above)

[wilf15592]

what's the difference between a dynamite going off at ground level and the same dynamite going off in the subterrestrial? the difference is that the latter wreaks greater damage.

[duckyboo83]

In this case, not only will such a nuclear powerplant be located away from malaysia's coastline, but from a defence perspective, a nuclear powerplant located a few KMs underground will be very hard to destroy.

From a safety perspective, a nuclear fallout can be isolated underground simply by sealing off the tunnel.

If we can burrow underground 2 build an islandwide network of MRT tunnels, i don't see why we can't burrow under the seabed with the entrance of such a tunnel located on dry land.

[duckyboo83]

I have an idea to solve the nuclear issue in Singapore. I'm a M.D. and not an engineer, so I don't know how practical this is from a cost-benefit analysis.

I'm assuming that we have lots of experience and the technological know how when it comes to digging long underground tunnels as evident by our current MRT system, & the new circular line still under construction.

So why not dig an underground tunnel from pedra branca, heading North-east out towards the south china sea?

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