Letters To The Editor
Dangers of Rooppur nuclear power project
We fervently request the National Committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and port to protest against the government's plan of setting up a nuclear power plant at Rooppur. They are demonstrating to compel the government to abandon its plan of installing a coal-fired power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans, which will be disastrous to the world's largest mangrove forest. Ecological balance will be lost, lives of humans, animals and plants will be drastically affected in that area.
But the nuclear power plant at Rooppur will have a destructive effect over the whole country if any accident happens and we can foresee it happening because: Bangladesh is at high risk of earthquakes. We are not technologically developed as other advanced countries, and in case of radiation people will not be able to move to safe places. Then there is the huge cost of the project. Therefore, people from all walks of life must protest together to make the government come to its senses and save the country from any possible disaster.
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