Nuclear engineers will be listed globally, says Mauricio Ortiz. “If when the street is flooded, they don’t even know what to do, it’s a seismic country,” Marcela Villatoro says.
In the midst of a discussion on advantages and risks, the Legislative Assembly approved the new one on TuesdayNuclear Energy Actwhich regulates the authorization of sites for nuclear installations, as well as their design, construction and operation with the aim of generating nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The law was passed with 57 votes from New Ideas, CPN and PDC. Arena and we’re voting against.
The deputyMauricio Ortiz, of New IdeasHe said the law has the following advantages: clean nuclear power at zero cost to the impact of the environment, price stability, the formation of nuclear engineers in El Salvador, economic benefits, nuclear safety and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
One of the benefits mentioned by theDirector of Energy,Daniel Álvarez, is that the generation in plants are given in a stable way, so the price “is not changing like oil.”
By training we are new academic professionals not only attracts the academy to put nuclear energy in its university curriculum, but we also train nuclear engineers and that they will be quoted worldwide. Mauricio Ortiz (New Ideas).
However, the MemberMarcela Villatoro, ofNationalist Republican Alliance (Arena)He said nuclear power can give “risks that could be catastrophic not only for the environment but for the health of Salvadorans.”
For Villatoro, the president of the CEL, Daniel Álvarez, also tried to “minimize the climate risk and the health of Salvadorans in approving a nuclear plant in our country” by ensuring, according to the deputy, that “Chernobyl never exploded” but “there was an accident where radiation escaped.” In the Technology, Tourism and Investment Commission, Álvarez said that the accident in Japan was a “fortuitous event” but that “there is now another standard.”
“Sir, please be serious, if when you flood the street, you don’t even know what to do. The country is a highly seismic country, we don’t know what to do when there are catastrophes, we don’t have technical or specialist people, or even if it’s said that this is going to start working, why are we approving things that even the president of the CEL said ‘couldn’t be or might not be’ that we saw benefits for seven years?, and the ordinary Salvadoran what?” exclaimed the deputy before the law was passed.
Why don’t we bet on renewable energy?It’s cheaper and generates three times as many jobs. Do you have any idea of the disaster or the catastrophe that could happen in a nuclear accident in our country? We’re missing, man, let’s think.’ Marcela Villatoro (Arena).
For his part,Claudia Ortiz, ofCome on., quoted theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)to say that each nuclear power plant implies a 100-year commitment between the construction, operation, closure and disposal of waste.
It is quite clear that this bill is somehow a shell for a project that they are not very clear, to say ‘we are making a novel project’. Claudia Ortiz (Come on).
Ortiz said the Legislative Assembly is evading its responsibility. “People are going to spend Christmas with the same minimum wage but at higher cost of living, unable to sell because the markets burned or because people have to flee the CAM in order to sell their products… Those who have access to their business approval are those who have connections, those who have in that little ackletic power,” he said.
Congresswoman Elisa Rosales, from New Ideas, explained that opposition initiatives are not scheduled by the Legislative Assembly because they are not a majority. “You bring your initiative and here you take decisions by a majority, what fault do we have that you don’t get the votes for the proposal you bring? On the board of directors, at least, I’m not going to give you my vows. That’s how the board works and that’s how the commissions work,” he told Arena and Vamos.
In no article says he says he’s not going to work for the Salvadoran people. The reality is that they finally have a government and a Legislative Assembly that has been hand in hand with them, which has brought security to them. Elisa Rosales (New Ideas).
In response, Congresswoman Marcela Villatoro (Arena) told New Ideas to “bypass” the laws and the Constitution.
It’s just clarifying something to the person who preceded me. It’s just not that he likes it or doesn’t like it. It is their obligation because the Constitution says that all deputies have the right to a bill. The board of directors is obliged to schedule them and send them to the committees. Marcela Villatoro (Arena).
“Make no mistake, deputy,” MP Claudia Ortiz told Elisa Rosales. “Most are not in these curules, most of it is out there,” he said, pointing to them of having privileges.
Elisa Rosales then reprimanded them that they have not voted for the emergency regime and assured that New Ideas did give the votes for security. “They have denied that vote to the Salvadoran population,” he said. The vote took place at 7:29 p.m.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo