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The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
in the Media –
5 February 2018
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Nuclear power: Surviving on secrecy and misinformation
The Daily Star 12:00
AM
, February 02, 2018 /
LAST
MODIFIED
: 03:21
AM
, February 02, 2018 Mowdud Rahman and Debasish Sarker While countries like Germany, Belgium, France, and Japan are trying to find an escape route from nuclear power, Bangladesh is taking two steps back. Although the 2,400-
MW
Rooppur nuclear power project has already garnered some support, there are critical issues that need to be addressed for the country’s safety and security. We need to establish whether the claims (…)
WNISR
Essential News –
2 December 2017
Construction Start at First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh
Construction Start at First Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh
WNISR
, 2 December 2017 Bangladesh has started construction of its first nuclear reactor at Rooppur in Pabna District on the river Ganges, 140 km west of the country’s capital Dhaka. The first base mat concreting of the Rosatom supplied
VVER
-1200 began on 30 November 2017. Two of these 1200
MW
reactors are planned for the site operated by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (
BAEC
).
JSC
AtomStroyExport (
ASE
), a subsidiary of (…)