Vienna (BSS/AFP) – The UN atomic agency predicted Friday continued growth in nuclear power in the coming 15 years but trimmed its projections because of low fossil fuel prices and competition from renewables. “Nuclear energy, in the long run, will…
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Russian icebreaker to get a nuke reactor
Dhaka – The next generation Arktika icebreaker is approaching the time when it joins Russia’s nuclear-powered fleet. The Baltic Shipyard started installing a propulsion unit on the vessel in September.
Gas supply resumes in northwestern districts
Dhaka: The gas supply which remained fully or partially suspended in the country’s northwestern districts resumed on Sunday as Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) completed its pigging work (pipeline cleaning) in its transmission lines. UNB News Agency Reported.
Putin discusses Russian nuclear industry with Rosatom chief
Sergey Kirienko, head of Russia’s state nuclear power corporation – Rosatom meets president Vladimir Putin in Moscow recently to apprise him the latest achievements of Russian nuclear industry.
Is nuclear crucial to climate change targets?
As Britain greenlights its first new nuclear power plant in more than 20 years, experts diverged Thursday on the role of nuclear energy in the quest to cap global warming at less than two degrees Celsius.The broad challenge in meeting…
India raises dispute at WTO against US solar panel programs
Geneva (D. Ravi Kanth) – India has taken the plunge finally, and raised a dispute against the United States at the World Trade Organization on 9 September over domestic content requirements and subsidies provided by eight American states — Washington,…
Rosatom makes significant breakthrough in cancer treatment
Dhaka – Russia’s state nuclear power corporation– Rosatom’s nuclear medicine specialists have made an important step forward in cancer treatment. Russian federal service for surveillance in healthcare has given authorisation to Rosatom’s scientific department – Institute of Physics and Power…
Tianwans new reactor undergoes testing
Dhaka – Non-pressure tests representing a landmark of the project began at Tianwan-3 (China) three days ahead of the schedule. During the tests, primary circuit pipelines and systems are pre-washed to remove debris left over after the installation is complete.…
Security beefed up throughout power sector for Eid
Dhaka: All entities in the power sector have been asked to take extra measures to ensure foolproof security at power generation plants and power supply establishments across the country during the Eid-ul-Azha period. This directive came from an emergency meeting…
Titas cut 17,300 illegal gas connections in 2 months
Dhaka: Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd cut some 17,300 illegal gas connections, including that of a CNG station and 18 commercial establishments, in the last two months. During the period, the state-owned largest gas company which is responsible…
Anti-Rampal campaigners seek mega solar power plant
Renewing its demand for cancellation of the coal-based Rampal Power Plant near the Sundarbans, the National Committee to Protect Sundarbans (NCPS) on Tuesday demanded that a mega solar power plant be set up at the Rampal site.“We’ve placed our demand…
High-powered BD power delegation likely to visit India in Oct
Dhaka: A high-powered Bangladesh delegation, led by State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, is likely to visit India in the first week of October next. According to official sources, the junior minister has primarily accepted an Indian invitation…
Don’t build Rampal plant, choose another site – Khaleda
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon the party leaders and activists to work together and get united by shunning all differences among them. “The party got a batch of new and youthful leaders. The party leaders and…
Rampal project to harm BD-India ties: Nat’l Committee
Dhaka – Renewing the committee’s vow to continue its movement against Rampal power plant, leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Mineral Resources and Power Port on Monday said the power plant project will impede Bangladesh’s relations with neighbouring India once…
Nagorik Oikya supports protest against Rampal plant near Sundarbans
ASM Abdur Rab, president, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan, general sewcretary, Bangladesher Samajtanrtrik Dal (BSD) and SM Akram, chief adviser, Nagoric Oikya on Saturday expressed their solidarity with the movement to protect the sunderbands by atopping the proposed coal-fired…
Greens vow to stop plant near Sundarbans, Govt to deter ‘anarchy’.
Dhaka – Is Ramphal coal-powered thermal power plant going to be the next flash point? This question is being asked by neutral obserers as the National Committee on Oil, Gas and Ports have vowed to stop the prospect by utilising…
Thru’ Ramphal project PM indulging in ‘anti-state activities’: Khaleda
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party are indulging in ‘anti-state activities’ by setting up coal-fired power plant near the Sundarbans, UNB news agency reported.
PM to brief the press on Rampal power plant project
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press briefing on Saturday on the proposed coal-fired power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans.
Dhaka-Naraynganj dwellers may face low pressure in gas supply
Consumers of different areas under Dhaka city, Naraynganj and its adjoining areas may experience low pressure problem in gas supply as Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) has started pigging works at their two major gas transmission lines.
Oil-gas committee vows to stop Ramphal Project
The National Committee for Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports Protection has declared to make the anti-Rampal power plant protest a successful movement with ‘lessons learnt’ from the Phulbarhi movement.The committee organised a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar…
Gas supply to Dhaka, N’ganj, maypoor for work on lines
Dhaka: Consumers of different areas under Dhaka city, Naraynganj and its adjoining areas may experience low pressure problem in gas supply as Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) has started pigging works at their two major gas transmission lines. The two…
Cambodia embarks on a long term plan for nuke plant
Cambodia and Russia are in discussion on plans for the preparing human resources and subsequent construction of the nuclear power plant in the Cambodia to meet the country’s fast rising energy demand.
Uncertainty looms over multi-client seismic survey in Bay
The launching of multi-client seismic survey in the Bay within the current year has become uncertain as the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently sent back the relevant file to the Energy Ministry for further review of its tender process…
Protesters block Dhaka street junction opposing Rampal Project
Dhaka – Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, a left-leaning student organisation, on Tuesday staged demonstrations at Shahbagh intersection protesting the proposed Rampal coal-fired power plant project near world’s largest mangrove forest the Syndarbans.
Rosatom subsidiary Nukem to build Radioactive Waste Repository
Nukem Technologies, a sister concern of Rosatom’s ASE engineering group, joined the consortium to build a radioactive waste storage facility at Kozloduy NPP. Alongside Nukem, the consortium includes four Bulgarian companies. The contract is worth 72 million Euros. The facility…
BERC starts public hearing on gas price hike proposal
Vigorously opposing the government`s proposal to raise gas price, consumer rights groups, apex trade body FBCCI and different left-leaning political parties on Sunday during the first day of public hearing said that there are no logical grounds to the proposal.”The…
Titas price proposal has no grounds: BERC committee
Disagreeing with the nearly doubled (95 percent) on average gas price proposal by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company, a technical evaluation committee (TEC) of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has failed to find grounds for raising the price…
Doubling down on european energy efficiency
Paul Hofheinz Brussels – At the COP21 conference in Paris last December, world leaders made a binding pledge to set national targets, including energy-efficiency benchmarks, for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Now, the European Commission is nearing a moment of truth: Will…
Ukraine sees solar power as Chernobyl’s future
Imagine one of the largest solar farms ever at the site of the world’s worst man-made nuclear disaster that struck Chernobyl in modern-day Ukraine and sowed panic across Europe.That is the grand vision of Ukrainian Environment Minister Ostap Semerak, backed…
World’s first gen-III nuclear power unit connects to Russian grid
Reference project of Rooppur nuclear power plant – Unit 6 of Novovoronezh NPP in Russia becomes the world’s first Generation-III+ nuclear power unit to be successfully connected to grid. Trial connection of the unit with the VVER 1200 reactor having…