Jakarta, <strong><em>NU Online</em></strong><br /> The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is always ready to help countries including Indonesia build a nuclear power plant (PLTN), a spokesman said.<br /> <br /> "Indonesia should not be hesitate in its plan to develop PLTN because the world is working together to help the countries which are willing to build their nuclear power plants," consultant at IAEA nuclear technology development section in Austria, Jupiter S Pane said in his electronic letter to ANTARA here on Thursday.<br<> /> <br /> Pane said IAEA has formed a special team, called Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Group (INIG) whose main task was to systematically help developing countries in their plan to build their nuclear power plants.<br /> <br /> According to him, INIG has helped discuss infrastructure readiness status of countries such as Jordan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand with their plan to build nuclear power plant through the mission of Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR).<br /> <br /> "The infrastructure readiness status of some other countries will be reviewed as well in the next few years," Pane said, adding that some 60 developing countries had expressed readiness to build their nuclear power plants.<br /> <br /> The review of Indonesia`s infrastructure readiness status phase-1 was done in October 2009 with its result indicating that the country was ready to go ahead with phase-2. (ant/dar)

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