Scientists propose to drill 2-km deep hole instead of nuclear power plant

It is environmentally unfriendly and inefficient to construct a nuclear power plant. While the share of the nuclear energy will be on steady decline around the world in the next 10 years, Belarus is making a mistake which will be paid for by the present and future generations, academician Alexei Yablokov from the Russian Academy of Sciences said during a public ecological expertise of the nuclear power plant project in Belarus. In the view of the scientists, it would be much more benefitial for Belarusians to use geothermal energy instead of nuclear station project. This is four times cheaper with the same power capacity, reckons Yablokov.

Alexei Yablokov: “There are technologies that have not bee used yet but have already been developed. I am talking about low-temperature geothermal technologies. One can drill a hole at any place on the Earth. 1-2 km deep, there are warm sectors of 100-150 degrees Celcius. You just pump water inside or take hot water from there, and that's it! One can drill in Belarus as well, anywhere on the Earth. This is 4 times cheaper that building a nuclear power plant. It is also acceptable environmentally”.

The academician stressed that the developers of the Belarusian nuclear stations totally ignore alternative energy sources. But developed countries actively use the energy of wind, sun or sea tides.



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