National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia

Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional Unggul di kawasan regional

NuCab program has mission to assist human resources development and capacity building in developing countries within the region of Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Carabian. To succeed this program, some collaboration and cooperation with stakeholder within Indonesia and other countries has been done. The essence of collaboration is resource sharing since our organizational priorities and institutional pride are based in resource allocation and utilization. Following are our resources that we can share and do some collaboration.

(Yogyakarta, 20/07/2020) Head of the Nuclear Energy Supervisory Agency (Bapeten), Jazi Eko Istiyanto visited the flagship facilities of the Polytechnic Institute of Nuclear Technology (STTN) namely Betatron and Iradiator, Wednesday (08/07). The visit to the two STTN facilities aims to find out in detail the facilities and their use in supporting learning tasks and functions for universities and the wider community while ensuring their safety.

Director of Inspection of Radiation Facilities and Radioactive Substances, Zainal Arifin said, Betatron is a tool for detecting cracks in concrete. In its utilization, this Betatron has been equipped with an operational permit and has already conducted trials. Betatron is a high-tech tool and is currently widely used for testing cracks in toll road construction.

(Yogyakarta, 09/07/2020). Head of the Nuclear Energy Supervisory Agency (Bapeten), Jazi Eko Istiyanto, directly led the inspection task carried out by his institution at the BATAN Accelerator Science and Technology Center in Yogyakarta (09/07/2020).

"The challenge for the nuclear people is getting heavier every day because it concerns nuclear safety and security aspects. This is a joint task between the inspector (Bapeten, red) and the operator (BATAN) so that the nuclear remains safe," said Jazi at the beginning of his speech.

Facing the Covid-19 era, Jazi felt that he was compatible with the distance learning system implemented by the Kartini reactor in Yogyakarta. The Head of Bapeten asked the Director of Inspection of Radiation Facilities and Radioactive Substances, Zainal Arifin, "Can this inspection be done by using Zoom, without having to come to Jogja. For example, the inspector will ask to carry out work processes such as measuring by meter survey and so on," said Jazi. This will save a lot of budget, this needs to be evaluated to make it more useful. Jazi believes that BATAN and Bapeten are partners so that by doing so, it will not harm the nuclear people.

(Serpong, 07/03/2020), the National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) together with other stakeholders began the work of a feasibility study of nuclear power plants (PLTN). This was conveyed by the Head of BATAN, Anhar Riza Antariksawan at the Kick Off Meeting of the Implementation of National Research Priority (PRN), Feasibility Study on Commercial Scale NPP at Grand Zury Hotel, BSD Serpong, Thursday (02/07).

Anhar said, the Kick Off Meeting was used as initial coordination to start commercial scale feasibility study activities for NPP. This feasibility study is one of the tasks given by the government to BATAN as the coordinator of the national research priority program in the energy sector.

"Initial coordination is carried out in order to get the same understanding in conducting future studies. "The study conducted by BATAN assisted by several agencies is only the Pre-project phase or one phase of the three phases of nuclear power plant construction," said Anhar.

(Jakarta, 12/05/2020) A package of assistance from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the form of virus detection equipment using RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction) real time data techniques, has arrived at Indonesia, Monday (11/05). RT-PCR is used for swab tests on patients suspected of being infected with Covid-19 and can provide precise results for prevention of the spread of the disease.

The Science Attache of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia (PTRI) Vienna, Dimas Irawan explained, the RT-PCR equipment assistance and its accessories were sent in stages into six delivery packages. So far, the IAEA has provided assistance to use RT-PCR tools to member countries that have contracted the Ebola, Zika, MERS virus outbreaks, and are now being used for Covid-19.

"This grant itself is in the form of RT-PCR equipment that we are familiar with for the detection of the Corona virus (besides Ebola) which has been used by the IAEA to help member countries affected by the Ebola, Zika, MERS and now Covid-19 outbreaks," explained Dimas.