RoI of the two Rs!

Published: October 11, 2016 21:25:23 | Updated: October 21, 2017 16:13:06

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Here the two Rs, stand for Rampal and Rooppur power projects which will usher in an era of social, economic and ultimately highly negative (on a national basis) overall financial return on investment (RoI), over many decades to come that anyone can even dare not imagine! From the point of health, it will usher in a new area of disaster beyond imagination! We are however, 'going full steam ahead' to implement these two highly expensive projects. They may possibly cripple the nation for many more decades; once these potentially 'killer' projects are implemented!
The Rampal thermal power plant will destroy the environment all around the plant as we cannot control or guarantee the direction the wind will be blowing round it! Hence, fine fly ash particles will continue to pollute the environment as long as the power plant is running! This will progressively deforest the prime Sunderban forest areas all around the plant in the coming decades. May anticipate such a scenario could be staging there, possibly beyond the year 2085!
The other is the potentially catastrophic disaster that we may permanently inherit, thanks to the potentially radiation disease like killing cancers and other fatal diseases and permanently crippling diseases. The source of all this will be radiation leak from the potentially fatal Roopur atomic power plant to be supplied by Russia. Such plants hold the record for the worst civilian nuclear disaster that has ever occurred since the atom bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Unfortunately, our authorities, with poor record of performance of conventional thermal power plants, are all set to go for the potentially fatal nuclear power plant, whereas many European technically advanced countries have decided to run down their nuclear plants in the interest of safety of their citizens. Unfortunately, our ill-advised authorities are going for this highly expensive nuclear power project. When the safety issue should be at the top of all options, such a decision needs to be reviewed once again. There is no point inviting a disaster that we can easily avoid.
Engr.S.A.Mansoor
 

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