Nuclear Waste Management in the context of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh

International Journal of Industrial Engineering

© 2021 by SSRG - IJIE Journal

Volume 8 Issue 1

Year of Publication : 2021

Authors : Farzana Yeasmin

10.14445/23499362/IJIE-V8I1P101

How to Cite?

Farzana Yeasmin, "Nuclear Waste Management in the context of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh," SSRG International Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 8,  no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2021. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23499362/IJIE-V8I1P101

Abstract:

Economics, energy, and the environment are intricately bonded throughout the world from the ancient period. For a sustainable future, energy security is a must to bring about the desired economics, standards of living, and lately for any country's national security. Over the last fifty years, a significant amount of the world’s electric supply has been ventured from Nuclear power plants (NPP). Bangladesh's government is firmly devoted to universal electrification in a secured and affordable way to persue “Vision-2021” and “Vision-2041”. As a sustainable source of energy, Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is a prospective solution for Bangladesh, which also imposes a big challenge at the same time in the safe disposal of the high-level radioactive wastes generated from the nuclear power plants. Bangladesh already has admirable amenities for the management of present radioactive waste. Still, it requires more technical improvement for the final disposal of the future radioactive waste arising from the country’s first nuclear power plant, RNPP. This paper focuses on assessing the current trends in nuclear waste management worldwide and reviews the nuclear waste management plan in RNPP and the deficit in nuclear waste management of RNPP for the long term to acknowledge a theoretical study approaches to mitigate the problem in the future.

Keywords:

Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear waste management, High-level radioactive waste, Bangladesh.

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