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Sri Lanka to introduce nuclear energy

Sunday, 17 October 2010 - 5:58 PM SL Time

Baku-APA. The Sri Lankan government is planning to establish a nuclear power plant here to meet the growing demand for power in the country, a government minister said on Saturday, APA reports quoting Xinhua News Agency.

Champika Ranawaka, minister of Power and Energy said the government had already commenced prefeasibility study.

`We would express our proposal to France, Pakistan, India and Russia,` Ranawaka said, adding that the International Atomic Energy Authority would be consulted for the project.

Sri Lanka depends on hydro power with some coal power plants yet to be completed.

Ranawaka said they are not enough to meet the country`s electricity need.

Some environmentalists said establishing nuclear power plant cannot be afforded by this small island.

Hemantha Vithanage, executive director of the Center for Environmental Justice, said as a small island there is a high risk of introducing nuclear power to Sri Lanka.

Responding to environmentalists, Ranawaka said the government will not give in to protests by `bogus environmentalists` funded by foreign powers.

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http://www.en.apa.az/news.php?id=132266

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Edited By - Bonggo - 17 Oct 2010 11:12:07 GMT

samlk Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 461 Member Profile	17 Oct 2010 12:12:15 GMT Report for Abuse
	What happaned to you? LNP is realy dead. Isn't it? let me add one more West Indies thrash Sri Lanka to take title http://www.cricinfo.com/iwcc2010/content/story/482105.html How many of you knew that our girls had reached final??

zaharan Senior Member Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 9458 Member Profile	17 Oct 2010 13:15:03 GMT Report for Abuse
	How many of you knew that our girls had reached final?? Sam, I was following that, and unfortunate the girls lost the finals.

LankaPride Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 2354 Member Profile	17 Oct 2010 17:57:45 GMT Report for Abuse
	It is a very good decision by the Government to add nuclear power to optimize the National Grid of Sri Lanka. This will allow us to see a rapid development in the Country and also, our future integration into India's National Grid will be more practical and worth to consider. Good Decision and we will wait to see a rapid implementation of the proposals... Good Luck!

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Zaha,

In fact Sri Lankan girls did extremely well to reach the finals.

LP,

It is a very good decision by the Government to add nuclear power to optimize the National Grid of Sri Lanka. This will allow us to see a rapid development in the Country

How could nuclear power allow us to see a rapid development in our country?

We can have anything but without proper economic management we will not develop rapidloy.

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Hey Bonggo,

No Country cannot be considered as fully developed or open for development unless it has a way to power the energy demand created by the increasing population, expanding the service (full electrofication), upgrading the life standard by introducing ACs, Deep Freezers Hot Water ( ) and so many other presently limited services. All these services must be cgeaper, meaning that they must be affordable to General Public.

THe Nuclear & Thermal Power Stations can be considered as the base (continuous Supplier) of the Power while Diesel (Heavy Cost), Hydro can be considered to support the time dependent variable demand.

Since Nuclear Energy would be one of the Cheapest and since it can be considered for base power and since it is weather indepenedent, we can assure a more reliable power supply to the nation. Also, it will help us to provide a quality power accessible to whole nation, and that will guarantee the uplift of the living standard of the nation.

Bonggo Senior Member Joined: May 2005 Posts: 12795 Member Profile	18 Oct 2010 11:22:44 GMT Report for Abuse
	LP, You are right .. but without proper administration we cannot develop rapidly. That's my contention.

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