(a) the country is regularly hit by hurricanes;
So does Florida and yet, they hall nuclear power up and down the peninsula.
(b) the country lies on a fault that occassionally brings earthquakes;
So does California and they have nuclear in many places and nothing have happened.
(c) the DR is not known for adhering to construction specifications nor properly maintaining structures once built;
Wasn't South Florida destroyed by Hurricane Andrew because of SHABBY CONSTRUCTION, maybe the DR is not the only place of not following specifications, then again, who said Dominican engineers and architects were going to be the designers of such structures?
Foreigners who have more experience with such structures will be the designers, just how foreigners design and built the Juan Bosch Bridge, the 27 de Febrero espresso tunnels, Autopista Duarte, etc etc etc.
(d) the DR has no real nuclear engineers;
We will import the brain power needed to sustain the system.
(e) the DR has chronic difficulty paying for petroleum-powered plants, much less the expense of properly operating a nuclear plnt;
With the overabundance of electricity the nuclear plants would produce, the DR can sell power to our ever increasing power hungry neighbors like Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, etc. There is money to be made with this deal also.
(f) the country cannot manage its household trash cannot be expected to safely manage its radioactive waste;
We'll get foreigners to do that task just to keep people's nerves at tolerable levels.
(g) the DR has manifold smuggling and security risks (so no worries about nuclear diversion, right?! NOT!)
So does the US. BTW, there was a Cuban lady who recently smuggled her self into the US from the Bahamas via DHL Delivery service, literally. She actually put herself in a box and mailed herself (airmail and all) to some address in south Florida. Now, if there are real checks (this happened recently btw), why was she not discovered by the bomb sniffing dogs? The security checks? The X-Ray scanning machines?
And yet, the US has plenty of nuclear power plants, many of them right in Florida! And about the smuggling, it is estimated that up to 4 million illegal immigrants are smuggled into the US each year through the US/Mexican border.
My point is that if the US has the same smuggling and security risks the DR has, so why can't the DR do the samething the US does to satisfy its electricity demand?
Need more reasons not to contemplate nuclear power in the DR? I have a long list? :tired:
Sure, I would like to find a reason for why the DR should not use nuclear, but it has to be a real unique reason, not something that the US (and France, Italy, Spain, etc) also has and yet they use nuclear.