The identification of 20 sites for the establishment of peaceful nuclear reactors in Iraq

Baghdad - INA

The Iraqi Authority for the Control of Radioactive Materials announced that the National Committee for Nuclear Reactors is studying 20 potential sites for establishing nuclear reactors in Iraq.
The head of the commission, Kamal Hussein Latif, said in a statement to "Al-Sabah" newspaper, which was followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), today, Thursday: that 20 initial sites have been identified so far, and then internationally approved scientific projection methods will be used to reduce them to 5 sites after that Determining only two of them, one is original and the other is an alternative, indicating that "the selection process was carried out in two accurate scientific ways through differential and weighting equations, the first is the" Kenny "method and the second is the" SITE "method or the singular value, and by using the  ArcGis  system, confirming near the completion of the report on choosing the site and to send it to the prime minister's office . "

He added, "The selection depends on two phases with the same goals, but for each stage the accuracy is higher to reduce the number of the elected lands, leading to more accurate determination of the site, and then there is a final stage, which is the security assessment." What is preferred is that the nearest population center is 5.2 kilometers from the site and that the number of residents in that area does not exceed 500 people per square kilometer, and that the community does not exceed 65,000 people 30 kilometers away  .

Latif said, "With regard to the seismic nature of the region and earthquakes, the earth must be free of tectonic plates and no earthquake has been recorded more than 2 Richter during the past 50 years, and it must be flat ground and stable soil that is not eroded with torrents and there is no rise or A mountain or a large plateau or valley for a distance of 20 kilometers from the site, because the elevations with the rain may cause the erosion of massive torrents of water on the site. It is also preferable that the height of the site does not exceed 350 meters above sea level for calculations of boiling and evaporation of the reactor water .