Bangladesh returns from IAEA conference convinced – it wants a new nuclear plant by 2015

ByRod Adams

According to an article in the Times of India, Bangladesh aims to set up a nuclear power plant by 2015. The country is currently hampered by a lack of enough generating capacity; the estimated peak demand is 5,000 MWe, but the capacity is only 3,600 MWe. The only way to make that work is to turn off some of the demand.

It is pretty apparent to me that there is no way to know what the real demand would be if there was reliable, clean electricity available. Investors do not build factories, office buildings or call centers in places where the power regularly gets cut off. Of course, without those kinds of developments there are fewer people who can afford such luxury items as hot and cold running water, electric rice cookers, home lighting and refrigerators.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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