Nuclear power in Bangladesh

[2] On 24 June 2007, Bangladesh's government announced plans to build a nuclear power plant to meet electricity shortages.

The nuclear power plant will be built at Ruppur, on the banks of the Padma River, in the Ishwardi subdistrict of Pabna, in the northwest of the country.

[8] On 29 May 2013 Bangladesh's Prime Minister declared that a second 2 GW nuclear power plant will be constructed in the southern region of the country.

With lesser agriculture and more industry, not only more emissions will be given off to the atmosphere but lack of trees and plants will hinder any chance of carbon sequestration.

The plan also targets an increase in domestic and important coal based power plants, and more on-shore or off-shore gas exploration.

Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant Implementation Project (RNNP) is also one such scheme to reach an addition capacity of 9000 MW.

Transportation costs are higher for coal and oil systems at 20,000 train cars or 10 supertankers, in relation to a nuclear plant at just 3–4 trucks.

[15] According to the 4th IPCC, climate change in the region of the project area could cause exacerbate significant river erosion, deposition and flooding which would be of concern.

The site area immediately downstream from the Indian border is in addition vulnerable to unilateral bank protection construction.