National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan) estimates that there are reserves of 70 thousand tons and 117 thousand tons of Uranium Thorium is spread across a number of locations in Indonesia, which can be useful as an alternative energy future.

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National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan) estimates that there are reserves of 70 thousand tons and 117 thousand tons of Uranium Thorium is spread across a number of locations in Indonesia, which can be useful as an alternative energy future.

"For Uranium potential of various categories, there is the category of scalable, inferred, identified and category hypothesis, while new thorium hypothesis yet to measurable category," said Director of the Center for Development of Nuclear Geology Batan Sumaryanto Agus on the sidelines of the launch of Map of Radiation and Radioactivity Environment in Jakarta , Monday.

Most of the uranium reserves are mostly located in West Kalimantan, partly in Papua, West Sulawesi and Bangka Belitung, while Thorium mostly in Babylon and partly in West Kalimantan.

Recent studies conducted in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, where the preliminary detection called Uranium levels in these locations ranged from 100-1500 ppm (parts per quadrillion) and thorium between 400-1800 ppm.

Singkep districts, Mamuju also become the region's fastest gammanya radiation dose rate in Indonesia compared to the average values ​​Gamma radiation dose rate in Indonesia is 46 NSV per hour, said Director of Technology Center for Radiation Safety and Metrology Batan, Susilo Widodo.

He said it has compiled Radiation and Radioactivity Environment Map as a baseline, so that if there is an increase in radiation induced natural factors such as radiation results not removable industrial or nuclear accidents, can be identified quickly.

Susilo said the accident occurred at the Fukushima nuclear reactor it does not detect the presence of nuclear radiation into Indonesian territory.

"Naturally, the nuclear radiation from Japan in the north to the area difficult to cross the equator. Precisely when viewed from the position and direction of the wind potential radiation from Japan would go first to the last United States and China," he said.

This map, he said, it is also important to examine the health effects for people living in areas of high radiation as well as indications of minerals like Uranium, Thorium and minerals like.

Map of radiation levels and radioactivity in the environment in Indonesia, he explained, consists of five maps, the map of environmental gamma radiation dose rate and map the level of concentration of natural radionuclides thorium-228, thorium-232, radon-226, and potassium-40 in the sample surface.

Batan also launched a URL monitor environmental radiation Serpong area where the nuclear reactor was installed five gamma monitors in the region during 2012-2013 and launched the "GPS tracking" to transport waste in Indonesia.