BD signs nuclear deal with Russia

[Neo]

BD signs nuclear deal with Russia

Sunday, May 23, 2010

DHAKA: Bangladesh has signed a cooperation deal with Russia which will led to two nuclear power plants being built in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official said Saturday.

Under the deal, signed in Moscow on Friday, Russia will help construct the two 1,000-megawatt nuclear plants in the north of the country, Bangladesh’s nuclear energy commission chief Mosharraf Hossain told AFP.

“It is the first step towards setting up the two nuclear power plants. A full-fledged agreement will be signed in September when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Moscow,” he said.

The agreement was signed by Bangladesh’s junior minister for science and technology Yeafesh Osman and Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Russian atomic energy corporation, Hossain said.

Under the deal, Russia will help set up two reactors near the town of Rooppur, as well as supply nuclear fuel, take back spent fuel and train Bangladeshi officials to run and maintain the plants. Hossain said the first of the two plants is expected to generate power by 2017, and each would cost at least 1.5 billion dollars.

Bangladesh has long suffered severe power outages due to demands imposed by its fast-growing economy, which has been growing at around six percent a year since 2004.

The crisis has worsened this year, as the gap between demand and supply shot up to 2,000 megawatt or half of the daily production due to years of under-investment.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have said the country’s economic growth would slide to five per cent a year the worst performance in eight years largely due to the worsening energy crisis.

In 2007, Bangladesh received approval from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the industry’s global watchdog, to set up a nuclear power plant.

Hossain said the government needed to build the plants as the country’s main source of energy, natural gas, was fast depleting and could run out in a decade.

BD signs nuclear deal with Russia

[Condor]

Ah Neo, so Bangladesh also, is now well on its way to the BOMB

Should raise a few heckles in a neighbourhood crowded with Nukes

Good luck to our Bengladeshi Brothers.

[Neo]

BD is a member of NPT and CTBT, so there are no hurdles nor restrictions for her to build a civil nuclear platform. I don't believe that she ever had ambitions to go nuclear for military purposes.

[Condor]

Originally Posted by Neo

BD is a member of NPT and CTBT, so there are no hurdles nor restrictions for her to build a civil nuclear platform. I don't believe that she ever had ambitions to go nuclear for military purposes.

Agreed!!

But they will now call it the Bangladeshi Bomb.

Like the Iranian Bomb in Iran - and the Islamic Bomb of Pakistan.

Israel does not have a Jewish Bomb - neither India a Hindu Bomb.
These are good countries, in line with their visions.

[Jihad]

Originally Posted by Condor

Agreed!!

But they will now call it the Bangladeshi Bomb.

Like the Iranian Bomb in Iran - and the Islamic Bomb of Pakistan.

Israel does not have a Jewish Bomb - neither India a Hindu Bomb.
These are good countries, in line with their visions.

I hope Uncle Sam didn't take note of this.

Stupid of me to say, they keep track of everything.
And if Bangladesh + the world 'nuclear' are used in one sentence, you'll be most likely hearing something of an Islamic Bomb from the west.

Apparently, there is no peaceful way for Muslim countries, or countries other then the U.S. and it's allies to harbor nuclear materials and use it for good purposes. (According to America).

[Condor]

^^ If it wasn't us that muddied their waters, coz we're downstream of them
then we must have abused them the last time.
And if we couldn't do that coz we wern't born then our Fathers must have
abused them _ From the fable of the 'Lion & the Lamb'

What difference does it make Jihad?
We are suckered anyways.