Massive corruption surfaced at Rooppur Nuclear Powerplant Project

[UKBengali]

14 billion usd is excessive amount for 2000 mw power plant.

I heard government will have to give 8 billion usd extra as interest during the duration of the loan.

This project is turning into a white elephant project.

Why you say that?

Any other country would have played at least 12 billion US dollars for the latest Russian nuclear tech in Roopur.
They also pay the same interest as BD.
Yes, there is a lot of interest but the almost zero running costs of the plant will mean that it will cost the same to build and operate over it's lifetime as a coal fired power station, with the bonus the energy is totally clean.

 

[Nilgiri]

Why you say that?

Any other country would have played at least 12 billion US dollars for the latest Russian nuclear tech in Roopur.
They also pay the same interest as BD.
Yes, there is a lot of interest but the almost zero running costs of the plant will mean that it will cost the same to build and operate over it's lifetime as a coal fired power station, with the bonus the energy is totally clean.

Almost zero operating costs? LOL. That too for a developing country just starting this? Can't just copy and paste LCOE from developed countries.

Besides if you are going to use LCOE argument, why not more natural gas power plants at half the total cost (even in developed country where they add CO2 as a cost)? Natural gas plant could very well be 3 times cheaper in lifetime cost for BD all things considered (since CO2 is not really a relevant cost for developing country and the extra overruns that will inevitably happen for nuclear capital + operation in BD given 0 economy of scale and 0 experience to harness from before).

More desperation for equal-equal with everyone else (by govt/elite stronk types) = more premium paid through the nose by BD people.

 

[UKBengali]

Almost zero operating costs? LOL. That too for a developing country just starting this? Can't just copy and paste LCOE from developed countries.

Besides if you are going to use LCOE argument, why not more natural gas power plants at half the total cost (even in developed country where they add CO2 as a cost)? Natural gas plant could very well be 3 times cheaper in lifetime cost for BD all things considered (since CO2 is not really a relevant cost for developing country and the extra overruns that will inevitably happen for nuclear capital + operation in BD given 0 economy of scale and 0 experience to harness from before).

More desperation for equal-equal with everyone else (by govt/elite stronk types) = more premium paid through the nose by BD people.

Dude, you aware that there will be two nuclear plants by 2030 and anything from maybe 6-8 by 2040?
BD simply does not want ANYTHING that will be polluting
as it is building enough of that! Also it gives redundancy in case there is a shortage of say coal and gas at some point in the future.
It is all part of the energy mix and BD wants to get into nuclear tech and so is prepared to pay a little extra for the privilege.

 

[Michael Corleone]

14 billion usd is excessive amount for 2000 mw power plant.

I heard government will have to give 8 billion usd extra as interest during the duration of the loan.

This project is turning into a white elephant project.

last i heard it is 22 billion dollars for plant from france with about the same generation capacity
tbh, it's our fault for not using cash

Actually without AL having built so many power plants over the last decade, the economy could not have kept growing.

well it's true to a certain point but many business owners.... atleast the huge ones have their own in sight power generation capacity that they built when electricity used to be scarce.
i guess if they're smart they still maintain those

 

[Nilgiri]

Dude, you aware that there will be two nuclear plants by 2030 and anything from maybe 6-8 by 2040?
BD simply does not want ANYTHING that will be polluting
as it is building enough of that! Also it gives redundancy in case there is a shortage of say coal and gas at some point in the future.
It is all part of the energy mix and BD wants to get into nuclear tech and so is prepared to pay a little extra for the privilege.

You can't replace base load requirement (projected) with pure nuclear power (if argument is that all ramp load will be renewables here on out which is fair strategy looking at prices there).

Would be way too expensive. So no, BD does not "want" just nuclear power. Gas would be the best bet to make the majority if there is LCOE argument. CO2 really is not a pollutant (given you 99.999% get the average concentration from the rest of the world to begin with)....and gas does not produce very many particulates or other bad products....its clean burning.

But lets see.

@bluesky

 

[UKBengali]

You can't replace base load requirement (projected) with pure nuclear power (if argument is that all ramp load will be renewables here on out which is fair strategy looking at prices there).

Would be way too expensive. So no, BD does not "want" just nuclear power. Gas would be the best bet to make the majority if there is LCOE argument. CO2 really is not a pollutant (given you 99.999% get the average concentration from the rest of the world to begin with)....and gas does not produce very many particulates or other bad products....its clean burning.

But lets see.

@bluesky

I did not say have everything as nuclear power. BD will have an energy mix by 2030 that will be 10% nuclear, with the rest being coal, gas, solar and hydroelectric in order of generation capacity.

Another interesting bit of information about BD is that it has had a 3MW research reactor since the 1980s and spends 150 million dollars a year on nuclear development. AL is really serious about building a nuclear tech industry and Roopur will give BD precious experience in operating one of the safest nuclear plants on the planet.

Roopur would have been cheaper had BD gone for Gen 3(Kudankulam Unit 3 and 4 being built in Tamil Nadu now) instead of Gen 3+(VVER-1200) technology.

Who told you that gas does not pollute? It is cleaner than coal but is a pollutant none the less. Need to empahsize again that you do not refuel a nuclear power plant like you do with coal and gas - they can go 2 years before being refuelled and so less worry about supply disruptions.