Dear Critical Thinker,
Kindly let me know in less than 100 words what you think of this column:
Dennis
2020: Sources at the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Office of the Prime Minister, and Jamaica's Energy Ministry begin to promote a narrative that SLOWPOKE-2, a small nuclear research reactor located in a small building of few rooms within UWI Mona's Department of Chemistry, is “the first nuclear reactor in the Caribbean.”
1983: TRIGA Mark II, a nuclear reactor, was actually commissioned and has been continuously operational in Havana, Cuba, predating the UWI SLOWPOKE-2 reactor.
1968: Another reactor, IRR-1, was commissioned and has been continuously operational in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic—again, well before UWI Mona’s SLOWPOKE-2 reactor.
1965: BONUS, a 50-megawatt (thermal) nuclear power reactor, became operational in Puerto Rico, greatly predating UWI Mona's SLOWPOKE-2 reactor.
1969-1970: BONUS was decommissioned and entombed due to "insurmountable safety and technical issues," according to U.S. authorities.
1992: Cuba, at Presidente Fidel Castro's direction, abandons, late-stage completion of two 440-megawatt nuclear power reactors at Juragua Nuclear Complex, Cienfuegos (Note: Juragua, Cienfuegos, Southern Cuba is 224 miles from Port Antonio, Jamaica. Whereas Georgetown, Grand Cayman is 249 miles from Portie. On a direct helicopter flight to Georgetown, one can, by binoculars, barely make out the ruins of that Juragua Plant shown here: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juragua_Nuclear_Power_Plant )
Juragua's Coordinates for the geographically or informatics inclined are at:
Coordinates: 22°04′00.84″N 80°30′33.12″W
PLEASE ALSO SEE: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/05/f74/BONUSFactSheet.pdf.
---: Following these "BONUS" happenings Puerto Rico’s parliament overwhelmingly passed legislation banning nuclear power anywhere on the island archipelago
2020: ahead of that year’s gubernatorial election, nearly every candidate came out against nuclear energy for Puerto Rico.
2017: Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, initiating years of restoration and redesign aimed at creating a more resilient and efficient power infrastructure.
2017-2020: Puerto Rico’s efforts to reconstruct and enhance its grid continue.
---: Motivated by climate change concerns, Puerto Rico’s parliament later mandates that by 2050, 100% of its grid electricity will be generated from green renewable sources.
2024 (October): The U.S. Department of Energy is still issuing a Fact Sheet on BONUS, officially accessible at: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/05/f74/BONUSFactSheet.pdf.
Help me understand this narrative a little bit more, Prime Minister:
2021: Reports emerge that Mr. Michael Lee-Chin, a Jamaican-Canadian businessman and major owner of Portland JSX, the NCB Group, a media company, and a general insurance company in the Caribbean, is promoting Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as part of Jamaica's future energy mix—an area in which he has a vested business interest but no known competence up to when he was 73.
2022: At a business expo in Kingston's National Arena, the Prime Minister of Jamaica announces plans to introduce nuclear power to the country in a significant way as part of Jamaica’s energy mix.
2022 (CoP 28, Qatar): Jamaica's delegation, led by a Cabinet minister, votes to pursue "clean nuclear energy." Notably, Jamaica is the only delegation from Latin America or the Caribbean (33 independent and dependent territories) to take this stance at the end of CoP 28.
2024: Jamaica signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Canadian outfits to officially initiate nuclear power development in Jamaica.
2024: The Scientific Research Council of Jamaica holds its 31st annual conference, strangely focusing on "nuclear energy applications."
Could this be at Michael's and the Government’s direction?
Could cock mouth create more wealth at Jamaicans' expense?
WELL, SEE:
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