Nuclear power plant
Recent newspaper reports indicate that Bangladesh may have asked Russia for help in setting up a Nuclear Power Plant! This (highly knowledgeable?) move is totally wrong and dangerous. We are approaching the only country who managed to have the LARGEST and most DANGEROUS nuclear reactor accident in the last half a century of nuclear reactor operations! The very idea is mind boggling!
The safest (proven accident proof), simplest and the most cost effective nuclear reactor is the "Pebble Bed" design, which is built in South Africa, and runs their nuclear power plants. A number of such power plants are running in South Africa for over a decade. It can be built in modular units, adding on capacity as the demand and resources justify.
One wonders why most members of our scientific community (including Dr. Majumder from Germany) who wrote in this column on Sept 10 are unaware of this fact. The information is available only a "click" away in the Internet! One also wonders why our (wise?) government; even today has kept South Africa incommunicado; by not having any postal, fax or email link with the most prosperous and developed African nation! Probably no noting has been put up by any of our (erstwhile "Charidik Samlatey Paray" CSP) high flying bureaucrats, for the government to take the needed steps in opening up contact with South Africa; a country more technologically developed than many countries in Europe today!
But we unfortunately "see no good, hear no good and do no good" unless a direction is received from the powers that be and a note initiated and properly put up to start the unending bureaucratic crawl along the hierarchy till it is translated into action!
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