Mega Projects and White Elephants in Bangladesh: Will these turn us into another Sri Lanka?

[Bengal71]

2011 Ibaraki nuclear power plant accident. A water suction pit was built/ placed in the nearby sea from where water was being continuously pumped up by an electrically operated device to cool the reactors.

When tsunami hit, the pit was uplifted, the suction pipe was damaged and the electric line cut. Water stopped circulating and the reactors started to get overheated that caused the meltdown.

Actually, IATA or any country never anticipated such a situation. So, after the accident IATA and the nuclear countries' scientists have seated many times together to find out how to change the design that can guarantee no such mishap again.

IATA has approved the Rooppur design.

However, you are right to say that there are many unknown design faults and a plant within a densely populated area should have been avoided.

There is basically no place in BD that isn't densely populated. It's extreme risk taking and IMO irresponsible to install a nuclear power plant in a country like BD, just one accident will render the whole country uninhabitable.

As for IATA approved design or whatever design, accidents always happen because of faulty design or wrong operations by the crew. These things only come out after the accident took place but by that time it's too late.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

There is basically no place in BD that isn't densely populated. It's extreme risk taking and IMO irresponsible to install a nuclear power plant in a country like BD, just one accident will render the whole country inhabitable.

As for IATA approved design or whatever design, accidents always happen because of faulty design or wrong operations by the crew. These things only come out after the accident took place but by that time it's too late.

There are nuclear power stations in India. Any of those could also wipe out Bangladesh.

So no point worrying!

Roopur would damage India more given its location.

It will stop Indians doing anything stupid.

 

[UKBengali]

There is basically no place in BD that isn't densely populated. It's extreme risk taking and IMO irresponsible to install a nuclear power plant in a country like BD, just one accident will render the whole country uninhabitable.

As for IATA approved design or whatever design, accidents always happen because of faulty design or wrong operations by the crew. These things only come out after the accident took place but by that time it's too late.

I think you need to clue up on how safe the latest nuclear power plants are.

The one that BD is building is safe unless an earthquake destroys the reactor core. As the area has never had an earthquake anywhere near powerful enough to even cause severe damage to a plant like this it is irrelevant.

This nuclear power plant was one of the greatest initiatives from Hasina and another one will be built by 2030. Apart from cheap and clean electricity it also gets BD into the nuclear expertise game.

Solar panels are not suitable for BD as it is too densely populated and it is not as sunny as people think due to its very wet climate.

 

[Zibago]

Deja Vu?

 

[hembo]

Britain wishes it had built nuclear power plants instead of relying on Russian fuel.

Energy prices have sky rocketed.

You need to balance reliability, price and environment.

Renewable are not reliable - hence it’s a massive risk to have it as a big component of your energy mix.

Few months ago - Britain had no wind or sunlight - thankfully we were able to import electricity from France.

Many parts of the country suffered power cuts.

Given the volatile fossil fuel market - it was great hindsight by Hasina to build the nuclear plant.

Bangladesh needs to generate about 40% of its needs from nuclear. So needs another plant. Maybe the Japanese will build it on a build and own basis.

Fossil fuels are not an option due to the impact on the environment and import costs. Look at how it has impacted our currency reserves!

FBR-600 for 600 MWe for about 1.5~2 Billion USD?

There is basically no place in BD that isn't densely populated. It's extreme risk taking and IMO irresponsible to install a nuclear power plant in a country like BD, just one accident will render the whole country uninhabitable.

As for IATA approved design or whatever design, accidents always happen because of faulty design or wrong operations by the crew. These things only come out after the accident took place but by that time it's too late.

Safety features​

CFBR designs mentions a new and improved decay heat removal (DHR) system, reactor shutdown system from its predecessor PFBR. Passive safety features include new hydraulically suspended absorber rods (HSAR) which fall into the core under the influence of gravity if coolant flow is lost, and the inclusion of an ultimate shutdown system (USD) which would use pressurized gas to forcefully inject neutron poisons directly into the core to halt re-criticality incidents.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

FBR-600 for 600 MWe for about 1.5~2 Billion USD?

Rolls Royce is trialing smaller reactors - we might buy a few of those - if they can ever make them work.

 

[hembo]

Rolls Royce is trialing smaller reactors - we might buy a few of those - if they can ever make them work.

FBR-600's predecessor PFBR construction almost completed, albeit a lot of delays, and scheduled to go online from Oct this year. Also its test reactor FBTR finally reached full design power output of 40 MWe this year after some design tweaks with the core. Looks very promising for us third worlders with vast thorium reserves.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

FBR-600's predecessor PFBR construction almost completed, albeit a lot of delays, and scheduled to go online from Oct this year. Also its test reactor FBTR finally reached full design power output of 40 MWe this year after some design tweaks with the core. Looks very promising for us third worlders with vast thorium reserves.

Yep!

Smaller reactors are the best.

One for each EPZ, pls!!!

 

[Bengal71]

FBR-600 for 600 MWe for about 1.5~2 Billion USD?

It is 100% safety guaranteed? Or there is a possibility of 0.1% risk?

 

[Indos]

We can't completely rely on solar and wind, also having solar on roof tops batteries storing, the energy, the average individual household cant afford a storage battery.

They cost at 10k-20k, the national grid will need to modernised for a line going to central storage centre. Then distribute the power when someone needs power.

The storage battery will be expensive, but the battery is not in each individual houses, there should be connection with transmission company and there will be export and import electricity between each household and state owned electricity company

The battery storage belongs to transmission or power company as this is a plan by Indonesian state owned electricity company, PLN. As Today, the house hold who has solar panel in Jakarta and else where in big cities have already had connection with PT PLN.

There should be gas power plant stand by as well as back up. Gas is cleaner than oil and coal.