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Bangladesh seeks India`s help to set up nuclear reactor

New Delhi, May 06: Bangladesh has sought India's help for setting up a 600 MW nuclear power plant to meet its growing energy needs. "We have approached India for help to set up a nuclear power plant," said Hamid Khan, a senior scientist in the Atomic Energy Centre run by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC).

The Bangladesh government had earlier approached a European nation for supplying nuclear reactors but later chose India as it was "closer to home", he said.

"Talks are on at the government level," Khan told.

The neighbouring country is facing a power shortfall of over 1,500 MW and hopes to meet the demand through alternative sources like atomic energy.

Bangladesh's reserves of gas and coal have been its primary source of energy, but officials say these will run out within a few decades if they are used at the current rate.

The BAEC hopes to generate at least 1,500 MW with nuclear plants it plans to build, Khan said.

Khan, who was here to attend a conference on "Accelerator and low level radiation safety", said Bangladesh was expecting to procure 600 MW light water reactors from India.

"We chose India as it is closer to Bangladesh, both culturally and geographically. We will have help at country," he said.

Bangladesh has a nuclear programme that mostly caters to the requirements of the medical sector

Bangladesh had installed a three-megawatt research reactor at the atomic energy research establishment in Savar in 1986 for research and development activities and production of shorisotopes used in treating diseases like cancer.

It is understood to have finalised a site to build a 600 MW nuclear reactor. After the completion of the first reactor, another could be set up at the same site with the same power generation capacity.

Khan said Bangladesh's hydro-power plants too were not generating power to their full capacity. With limited domestic fossil fuel reserves, nuclear power offered a proven and economically viable option for electricity generation, he said.

A top Bangladesh Energy Ministry official said the county was considering atomic energy as an alternative source to bridge the growing shortfall of electricity.

Bangladesh's first nuclear power project was conceived in 1961, when the country was East Pakistan, and a site was selected in Rooppur on the basis of internationally accepted criteria and local requirements.

Both before and after Bangladesh's liberation, subsequent governments approved the nuclear power project and a number of international suppliers submitted proposals but these could not be implemented reportedly due to lack of funds.

Bureau Report



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Ahhhhh the famous ZEEnews.these guys have bird brain reporters.arent these the same guys who reported about talibans making nukes in caves.:rofl:

ANy how.

Foreign Affairs
China to help Bangladesh produce nuclear power
In The Acorn’s view, nuclear power presents an opportunity for countries to solve their energy problems; provided of course that adequate systemic, legal and international safeguards are put in place to address environmental, health, security and weapons proliferation concerns. So there should be nothing wrong Bangladesh seeking Chinese assistance to set up a nuclear power plant to answer its energy requirements? Not quite.

The most striking part about the China-Bangladesh nuclear deal is that it is more about politics than about economics. For Bangladesh, an alternative to the much-politicised international gas pipeline linking Myanmar and Bangladesh to India strengthens its negotiating hand. Furthermore, the deal allows Bangladesh to engage in that age-old trick of counterbalancing bigger powers, by playing the China card against India.

Once Bangladesh becomes less inclined to allow a gas-pipeline to pass through its territory, China would succeed in delaying or seriously damaging India’s attempts to secure overland access to Myanmar’s gas fields. As for the Myanmarese junta, they would hardly mind selling their gas to China instead. The South-East Asian mainland is already connected to Southern China through a road network — building a gas-pipeline alongside is a distinct possibility. Prevailing over the difficult terrain is an engineering challenge, while prevailing over the tribal militias and local regimes is a political one: China has proven to be more than equal to these challenges.

That India finds itself a peripheral observer to these developments is primarily because it finds its foreign policy haunted by the ghost of Gujral’s doctrine. King Gyanendra’s intransigence and Khaleda Zia’s overtures to China are but symptoms of a failed policy mindset as is the ‘unholy hype’ over Wen Jiabao’s visit. A seat in the UN Security Council does not ensure security, nor is it a substitute for a robust foreign security policy. Indeed, securing a Pax Indica through the greater use of deliberate irrationalism affords much greater benefits than being reluctant to anger China lest it refuse to support India’s ambitions at the United Nations.

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It doesn't make sense India hasn't even developed a nuclear power station supplying greater than 220 MV. How can they start building nuclear power station of 600 MV, the Indians are trying to build a Nuclear power station of max Power output of some where 475 MV.

The source is a bit weird.
 
Agree on that...the report is bias.

Its still a long way for both India and Pakistan to join the NSG.
 
Well, India is getting closer to joining the nuclear market probably in say 5 years or 8 years time.
 
Yes, India will get there earlier than we do, she has a good infrastructure and far bigger expenditure on nuclear science.
 
Yes, India will get there earlier than we do, she has a good infrastructure and far bigger expenditure on nuclear science.

Nope it has been supported by the Russians, Israelis, Europeans and probably the Americans they just have to many ToT in Nuclear power technology.
 
Nope it has been supported by the Russians, Israelis, Europeans and probably the Americans they just have to many ToT in Nuclear power technology.

Really....Doesnt it translate to what NEO said, India is far ahead of Pakistan in Civilian Nuclear Tech. DO you know what a FBR is? DO you know why the Americans want that in the deal, but India refused. Take off your glasses my friend our Educational and Research institutions setup in the early 50's are now in the best in the world and has been paying us rich dividends. Its all about Education.
 
Yes, India will get there earlier than we do, she has a good infrastructure and far bigger expenditure on nuclear science.

Our so called allies have been supporting India with nuclear and missile techs for along time.yet funny enough they were considered Pakistan's allies:rofl: .now its out in the open full speed ahead.
 
Really....Doesnt it translate to what NEO said, India is far ahead of Pakistan in Civilian Nuclear Tech. DO you know what a FBR is? DO you know why the Americans want that in the deal, but India refused. Take off your glasses my friend our Educational and Research institutions setup in the early 50's are now in the best in the world and has been paying us rich dividends. Its all about Education.


I recently attended a seminar in my local university by a visiting guest lecturer from India who is chief engineer/designer of the Indian nuclear power program. He start off the lecture talking about Chernobyl disaster and Three Mile Island accident, then he admit India is still in infancy stage of nuclear development, and he complained that there are no "literature" on nuclear reactor design and testing, and thus India was forced to indigenously develop its own control system. The problem he faced is India have little knowledge in Nuclear Reactor design even after so many years of research, and it could not build large complex reactor like the US/USSR/China/EU/Japan/Korea. It was a fact stated by him and that is why India planned to build so many nuclear reactors in recent years because it is forced to build smaller simpler design, out of the fear it just might blow up. (Bigger the reactor, bigger the fallout and disaster)

If you look at the number of reactors each country operate and the number of MW output, you can see India is pretty far behind everyone else. With 16 reactors, it only generate 3557 MW of power. Even Taiwan with 6 reactors generate more than India. Infact if using that as ratio of power output vs number of reactor you can tell how far behind Indian's nuclear technologies is. It is only SLIGHTLY better than Pakistan's.
(Per reactor output : India's 222.31 MW vs Pakistan's 212.5 MW)
If you compare how many reactor India built to achieve this "amazing" advance of 222.31 MW per reactor compare to how many Pakistan built, it can easily be seen Pakistan is actually advancing faster than India in this area. Even Armenia which built just one reactor outputs more than Indian's average. :D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country

So Adux, if I were you, I wouldn't be going off a ego-trip just yet of boasting how India's research program is "best in the world". :D
 
Really....Doesnt it translate to what NEO said, India is far ahead of Pakistan in Civilian Nuclear Tech. DO you know what a FBR is? DO you know why the Americans want that in the deal, but India refused. Take off your glasses my friend our Educational and Research institutions setup in the early 50's are now in the best in the world and has been paying us rich dividends. Its all about Education.

I wont deny the importance of education.
other then that your post is nothing but hot air.Americans have been helping India since the day 1 with nuclear tech.
Research institutions of India ?.that are paying dividends.Then why ask the Americans for help.why not build it your self .I think 57 years is long enough time to learn.unless Americans openly helping ya is the dividends you are talking about.

Building the nukes against all odds.thats called science and dividends.thank you A_Q Khan.:pakistan:

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Cheetah

When did FBR become Hot Air?
Americans helping India,lol It was the Canadians and the Soviets, shows how much you know about it
We all know about what Mr.A.Q.Khan is good for.
Research insititutions, hmm, BARC for example, or the IIT's.
I wouldnt expect you to know.
 
I recently attended a seminar in my local university by a visiting guest lecturer from India who is chief engineer/designer of the Indian nuclear power program. He start off the lecture talking about Chernobyl disaster and Three Mile Island accident, then he admit India is still in infancy stage of nuclear development, and he complained that there are no "literature" on nuclear reactor design and testing, and thus India was forced to indigenously develop its own control system. The problem he faced is India have little knowledge in Nuclear Reactor design even after so many years of research, and it could not build large complex reactor like the US/USSR/China/EU/Japan/Korea. It was a fact stated by him and that is why India planned to build so many nuclear reactors in recent years because it is forced to build smaller simpler design, out of the fear it just might blow up.

Please link what the professor said.It is a fact stated by him?I am not going to take your word on it.
Do you know what an Indian FBR? Why the US needs that desperatly in the Nuke Deal?
India is in its infancy when compared to those nations, except China. Korea?
Korea has a Nuclear Design (http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/041109.htm)
 

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