Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant

1. FEASIBILITY OF NUCLEAR POWER
PLANT IN BANGLADESH
RNPP PERSPECTIVE

2. GROUP 8
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3. OUTLINE
 Introduction
 Why Adopt Nuclear Power In Bangladesh?
 Present Power Condition of Bangladesh
 Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power
 Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP)
 RNPP at a Glance
 Safety Features of RNPP
 Safety & Hazards Analysis for RNPP
 Verdict

4. INTRODUCTION
 Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries of about 16
core people living on its area of 55 square-miles whose present peak
power demand is around 9.5 GW and maximum served demand is
about 6.5 GW. Though it has maximum power generation capacity of
about 10 GW but due to aged plants and poor capacity factor its
generation lowered very much when the country is planning to gain a
generation capacity of 20GW by the year 2020. To fulfil this vision
Nuclear Power Plant is considered as a vital factor which is not
seemed feasible for such a country. At present the country mainly
depends on fossil fuels for generating power, which amount is getting
lowered. Though sometimes renewable energy is considered as a
solution but for rapid demand, it is not sufficient to meet. Though
Nuclear Power would not be a feasible option for Bangladesh, however
if certain conditions are fulfilled some level of nuclear generation may
be installed.

5. WHY ADOPT NUCLEAR POWER IN
BANGLADESH ?
 Having high demand of electricity.
 Decrease pressure on gas and coal based power plants.
 We need to stop rental power plants; generate more by
using nuclear power as the running cost is very low and
requires less space.
 Reduce GHG’s emission.

6. Source- Bangladesh Power Development Board
URL - http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/
PRESENT POWER CONDITION OF BANGLADESH

7. Source- Bangladesh Power Development Board
URL - http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/
PRESENT POWER CONDITION OF BANGLADESH

8. Source- Bangladesh Power Development Board
URL - http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/
PRESENT POWER CONDITION OF BANGLADESH
Forecast
(07/08/18)
12102 MW 12597 MW
Actual
(06/08/18)
8980 MW 10646 MW
Total Generation Report
DAY DAY PEAK EVE PEAK

9. PRESENT POWER CONDITION OF BANGLADESH
Source- Bangladesh Power Development Board
URL - http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/

10. SO,WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
Can
Nuclear
Power
be a
solution?

11. PROS AND CONS OF NUCLEAR POWER
Pros Cons
Less fuel required Fuel is expensive ~$78/kg
Less space required Capital cost is high
Continuous supply of electricity Requires greater technical knowledge
Economical for bulk electrical power Radioactive wastes (Plutonium)

12. ROOPPUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
MILESTONE-1
 In 1961, first
proposed to build a
nuclear power plant.
 Accordingly that
year Govt. acquired
253.90 acre of land
in Ruppur in Pabna
district.
 In 1963, the plant
was approved.

13. ROOPPUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
MILESTONE-2
 After the independence in
1974 Bangladesh Govt.
started discussion with
Russia, which was not
successful.
 Finally, in February 2011,
Bangladesh came to an
agreement with Russia to
build RNPP.

14. ROOPPUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
MILESTONE-3
 The inter-govt agreement
(IGA) was officially signed
on 2 November 2011.
 Prime Minister of
Bangladesh (Sheikh Hasina )
laying the foundation stone
of Bangladesh’s first nuclear
power plant on 2 October
2013.

15. RNPP AT A GLANCE
TECH SPECS
Source- https://rooppurnpp.portal.gov.bd/

16. RNPP AT A GLANCE
TECH SPECS
Source- https://rooppurnpp.portal.gov.bd/

17. RNPP AT A GLANCE
 Construction by : State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, Russia.
 Cost of the Project : $12.65 billion
Russia: $11.385 (90%)
Bangladesh: $1.265 (10%)
 Opening :Targeted Launch of 1st unit in year 2022 and 2nd in year 2023.
 Longevity : 60 years.
Source- Rosatom,Wikipedia, BAEC

18. SAFETY FEATURES OF RNPP
Figure: Five layers of barriers against the radiation exposure to people and
environment

19. SAFETY FEATURES OF RNPP
The active safety systems includes:
• Emergency and planned cooldown protection system,
• High pressure emergency injection system,
• Emergency boron injection system,
• Emergency feed water system,
• Emergency gas removal system,
• Primary and secondary circuit overpressure protection system,
• Spray system,
• Containment isolation system,
• Intermediate circuit and service water supply,
• Ventilation, essential power supply
Source: https://www.iaea.org/resources/safety-standards

20. SAFETY FEATURES OF RNPP
The passive safety systems includes:
• Quick boron injection system,
• Emergency core,
• Cooling system hydro-accumulators,
• Passive containment heat removal system,
• Passive steam generator heat removal system,
• Hydrogen concentration monitoring and hydrogen passive recombination
system inside containment system,
• Molten corium trap and cooldown system
Source: https://www.iaea.org/resources/safety-standards

21. SAFETY & HAZARDS ANALYSIS FOR RNPP
Population Density
 The first consideration of hazard study should be population of the surroundings.
According to international law, the NPP surrounding has to be divided into 3
zones.
Zone-1 (3.14 sq. km circular area) is the reactor area and entry has to be limited
only to the people working with reactor.
Zone-2 (5 km away from the centre) is security area.
Zone-3 (30 km area) is for planning disaster and must be free of people.
Hence if there is any explosion at RNPP almost 1000000 people have to be
transferred to safe zone due to high density in the PP region

22. Earthquake,Tsunami and Natural Disaster
 According to seismic zoning map, Bangladesh is divided into three zones where
zone-3 is most vulnerably active and zone- 1 is most quiet .And the good thing is
Rooppur situated in zone-1
SAFETY & HAZARDS ANALYSIS FOR RNPP
Terrorism
 It is a dangerous threat to the nuclear programme of a country as seen in
Pakistan in recent few years. So there must be some options of emergency
response of countries’ defence agencies to prevent the possibility of nuclear
terrorism.
Source: http://www.ddm.gov.bd/earthquake.php

23. Waste Management
 Unlike other conventional power generation systems, nuclear power generation
takes full responsibility of the disposal of produced radioactive waste, though the
production of waste is not very high with respect to generated power.
 Radioactive wastes are classified into some categories depending on the rate of
radiation.
1. Exempt Waste andVery Low Level Waste (VLLW): Shielding not necessary
2. Low Level Waste (LLW): Shielding not necessary
3. Intermediate Level Wastes (ILW): Requires some shielding
4. High Level Wastes (HLW): Contains about 95% of total radioactivity. That’s why it
requires cooling and special shielding as well as long term disposal facility.
SAFETY & HAZARDS ANALYSIS FOR RNPP
Source: http://www.world- nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear-Wastes/Radioactive-
Waste-Management/

24. VERDICT
✓ Overall, Nuclear energy can be beneficial for our country.
✓ Nuclear energy is indispensable: it is the only energy able to
produce base load electricity massively and competitively
without greenhouse gas emission.
✓ Feasible if fulfilled all standards.
✓ Safety should be the first and foremost concern in the way to
make RNPP a success.
✓ Countries long term benefit has to be ensured in all
contracts from all sides.
✓ A Bangladeshi nuclear specialist team has to be raised.