Gearing up for Singapore’s nuclear option

UNTIL recently, the idea of harnessing nuclear energy in Singapore would likely have been dismissed out of hand, to no surprise.

Consider this: Both disaster sites in Fukushima and Chernobyl have exclusion zones that are a few times larger than Singapore’s total land area. Suffice to say, a nuclear accident on a similar scale would be existential for the city-state.

Yet, the authorities have in fact been leaning into the possibility of adopting nuclear power.