THINKING ALOUD
Gearing up for Singapore’s nuclear option
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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.
