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IAEA / BEIJING NUCLEAR CONFERENCE ADVANCER
STORY: IAEA / BEIJING NUCLEAR CONFERENCE ADVANCER
TRT: 3.21
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / 10-22 FEBRUARY 2009, INDIA / FILE
10-22 FEBRUARY, MUMBAI / KALPAKKAM / KADAKULAM, INDIA
1. Wide shot, exterior of heavy pressurized water reactor at Kadankulam
2. Med shot, exterior of power plant with flag
3. Close up, constructing power plant
4. Med shot, workers with cement
5. Wide shot, construction site
6. Wide shot, workers discussing
7. Wide shot, cylinder
8. Med shot, pond
24 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mc Donald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“We’ve revised our projections about future growth upwards every year in the last five years. And last year, construction started on more new reactors than in any year since before the Chernobyl accident. So, I wouldn’t yet use the phrase “nuclear renaissance”; I think there are reasons for rising expectations that such a renaissance will come.”
FILE – JAPAN, DATE UNKNOWN
10. Wide shot, nuclear power plant
11. Wide shot, power plant by the sea
12. Wide shot, power plant by the sea
13. Wide shot, power plant by the sea
FILE – CHINA, DATE UNKNOWN
14. Wide shot, Qinshan nuclear power plant
15. Med shot, control room in Qinshan nuclear power plant
16. Med shot, controls
17. Close up, digital counter showing the number 314 MWe
18. Med shot, staff sitting at a desk
24 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mc Donald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“The centre of expansion today is in Asia –Japan, Republic of Korea, China, India. But we project that perhaps between five countries or up to 20 countries that don’t now have nuclear power might have a program starting by 2030.”
10-22 FEBRUARY, MUMBAI / KALPAKKAM / KADAKULAM, INDIA
20. Wide shot, busy streets with cars passing by
21. Med shot, pedestrians walking on busy street
22. Wide shot, market area filled with people buying food
23. Wide shot, Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam Nuclear Complex
24. Wide shot, interior of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor
25. Pan right, interior to worker at controls
24 MARCH, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mc Donald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“There’s been a lot of progress so that the kind of designs that are on the market today are very different than say the Chernobyl reactor, there have been great improvements in performance, there have been great improvements in safety and there will continue to be such improvements but nothing happens over night and the progress can never get going too fast for the regulators.”
10-22 FEBRUARY, MUMBAI / KALPAKKAM / KADAKULAM, INDIA
27. Tilt up, construction
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) projects that the global use of nuclear power could double over the next twenty years.
Ahead of a high-level conference in Beijing next week, the IAEA says it expects the use of nuclear power to grow between 25 and 100 percent worldwide by 2030.
At the moment 30 countries operate a total of 436 nuclear power reactors, providing about 14 per cent of global electricity supplies. A recent resurgence of interest in nuclear power is now seeing more reactors being built.
India, where six plants are under construction, aims for more than a 70-fold increase by 2052, when nuclear energy would represent 26 percent of its power supply.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alan McDonald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“We’ve revised our projections about future growth upwards every year in the last five years. And last year, construction started on new reactors than any years since before the Chernobyl accident. So, I wouldn’t yet use the phrase “nuclear renaissance”, I think there are reasons for rising expectations that such a renaissance will come.”
IAEA analyst Alan McDonald says most of the increase will take place in the 30 countries that already have nuclear power plants today, especially in Asia.
Twenty-eight of the 44 units under construction are in that region, and 28 out of the last 39 reactors to be connected to the power grid were in Asia.
China is building eleven new reactors and plans a six- to seven-fold expansion of its nuclear power program by the end of the next decade.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mc Donald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“The centre of expansion today is in Asia –Japan, Republic of Korea, China, India. But we project that perhaps between five countries or up to 20 countries that don’t now have nuclear power might have a program starting by 2030.”
That includes countries like Jordan, Turkey, Poland and even Italy, which stopped its program after Chernobyl and is thinking about restarting it again.
The IAEA says that concerns over national energy security, rising demand for power due to population growth, and an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from traditional power plants are the main three factors that push countries towards nuclear energy.
Yet for nuclear newcomers, the IAEA warns that there is much to consider. The agency advises and helps such countries to identify the most suitable energy mix, and helps ensure that newcomers use nuclear energy peacefully, safely and securely.
IAEA analyst McDonald says it’s important to remember that nuclear regulators are a “very conservative group”. Before anything goes on-line, it is tested and re-tested. Innovation and research development have also made new designs safer.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Mc Donald, IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst:
“There’s been a lot of progress so that the kind of designs that are on the market today are very different than say the Chernobyl reactor, there have been great improvements in performance, there have been great improvements in safety and there will continue to be such improvements but nothing happens over night and the progress can never get going too fast for the regulators.”
The two-day summit on the current status and future prospects for nuclear power will open on Monday (20 April) in Beijing, China, bringing together energy ministers and representatives from over 60 countries.
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