I totally agree with Dr. A. Rahman ref- building nuclear power plant
in "roop pur" Pabna, B/Desh. At present economical case for nuclear
power still not viable ( both building cost & massive de-commissioning
cost ) not to mention about radiation doses received from day to day
operations, low and intermediate level waste disposals route etc. High
level dose materials" spent fuel " may take back the supplier
I personally feel that it is still too early for B/Desh to built such N power
plants for electricity generations while there is approx. 3.3 billon tons
of good low sulphur coal is lying in the underground mines.
 

Mr. Nazrul Islam lamented that successive governments dithered in taking a positive decision on the nuclear power plant (NPP) issue. But, I think , it is the credit to the successive governments that no decision had been taken without adequate consideration. Nuclear power plant cannot a prestige issue. The site in Rooppur in Pabna, surrounded by dense population, is not a suitable site. Most of the world's NPPs are either in coastal areas or in remote inland areas. Authorised discharges of radioactive liquid and gaseous wastes will affect surrounding population and cancer incidence will go up drastically. Another point is that Mr. Islam states that under 'take back option', reactor supplier will take back high level wastes. It must be realised that the reactor vendor has nothing to do with radioactive wastes. It is the fuel supplier who may consider this take back option, but then it will contrary to the international treaty. Moreover, what will happen to low and intermediate level wastes?

- Dr. A. Rahamn; Chartered Radiation Protection Professional and Fellow of the British Nuclear Institute, and the author of the graduate text book entitled 'Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management'.