Cabinet clears draft nuclear waste disposal policy

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Published : 17:16, Oct 14, 2019 | Updated : 17:23, Oct 14, 2019

The cabinet approved a draft policy for radioactive waste management in view of their growing uses, obligating polluters to pay principal for efficient disposal of the highly hazardous squanders in a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair on Oct 14, 2019. Focus Bangla.The cabinet approved a draft policy for radioactive waste management in view of their growing uses, obligating polluters to pay principal for the efficient disposal of the highly hazardous squanders in a meeting on Monday (Oct 14) with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

“The meeting has approved the draft of the National Policy on Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management-2019 in line with the guidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told a press briefing.

He said the draft policy intended to obligate the users of radioactive elements or polluters to take the main role for safe disposal of the hazardous wastes in line with the standard set by the IAEA.

The top bureaucrat, however, said the government intended to keep the use of atomic energy to minimal or logical level to minimize radioactive wastes.

Alam said an entity under Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) to be called Radioactive Waste Management Company (RWMC) would oversee the radioactive waste disposal process.

He said the policy would cover all areas relating to radioactive wastes like medical, scientific and energy sectors.

Alam, however, said the radioactive wastes to be produced from the under-construction Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna would be brought back by its Russian operator in line with an agreement signed earlier.

The meeting was held at the PMO while the briefing was called at the cabinet division of Bangladesh Secretariat this afternoon when the cabinet simultaneously gave final nod to the drafts of the Bangladesh Engineering Research Council Act, 2019 and Bangladesh Lighthouse Act, 2019.

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