The May issue of Electricidad magazine brought together Fernando Sierpe, Coordinator of the Nuclear Energy Committee of the Chilean College of Engineers, and Roberto Román, an academic from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Chile, in an interesting interview that contrasts their views regarding the installation of a nuclear power plant in the north of our country.

In the article, Román, who is also the head of Academic Outreach and International Relations at SERC Chile, argues that nuclear energy is the least suitable for our country for various reasons, such as the high cost of its reactors, the exposure of plants to tsunamis, and because current technology in this field is not yet sufficiently reliable, but fundamentally because there are multiple renewable energy alternatives—such as solar, geothermal, or photovoltaic—that make more sense for Chile and carry fewer associated risks.

To learn more about the opinions expressed by Roberto Román in the latest edition of Electricidad, Chile's energy magazine, visit www.revistaelectricidad.cl, check the online version, and search for this interview.