State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman on Friday urged critics of Rooppur nuclear power plant to ‘look forward leaving the past behind’.
“What you are talking about is the first-generation technology. But now is the time of the third-generation technology,” said Osman.
He suggested the sceptics dream of a better future and keep pace with the change of time.
After her recent Russia visit, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the work to set up the nuclear power plant at Rooppur would begin by October this year.
The plant is designed to have two units. Each of the units has been estimated to cost from $1.5 billion to 2 billion. Bangladesh signed a contract with Russia’s State Atomic Energy Commission Rosatom in November 2011 for assistance in the project.
Some experts are averse to the idea of having a nuclear power plant considering its vulnerability to disasters impacting human lives even though the country suffers from acute power crisis.
The junior minister was speaking at the conference of Society for Nuclear Medicine Bangladesh.
“The power plant should have been installed in 1964. But we are unlucky that we could not do it. Now when we are trying to do that some experts are pulling us behind.”
“We will definitely have it built.”
Scientists sought the government’s assistance in establishing contacts with their counterparts in the developed world.
Source: bdnews24.com
