nuclear freeze in venezuela a portend?

Reaction against nuclear power begins:


VENEZUELA'S President Hugo Chavez said he is suspending his country's fledgling nuclear energy program in the wake of the disaster affecting power plants hit in Japan by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

"I have directed (Energy) Minister (Rafael) Ramirez to freeze the plans we have been advancing, for preliminary studies of a peaceful Venezuelan nuclear program," the president said.

"What has happened in the last hours is extremely risky and dangerous for the whole world, because despite the advanced technology that Japan has, just look at what has been happening with some nuclear reactors.

"The magnitude of the nuclear problem in Japan is not known."

Venezuela in 2010 signed an agreement with Russia to begin to build the first nuclear power plant in the South American country, an agreement which aroused the suspicion of the United States.



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