ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka should consider a report on possibility of using nuclear energy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday when delivering a keynote speech at ‘Reform Now’ economic forum organised by Colombo-based think tank Advocata Institute.
“I think we need to seriously consider getting a report on using nuclear energy in Sri Lanka,” he said when he was explaining the way forward with new avenues to boost economy.
“More energy you have, more energy you can sell to India. At the same time, keep more renewable energy available here.”
Sri Lanka has been struggling to meet its energy demand given it is mostly relying on fossil fuel and coal. A dollar shortage has already hit the imports of fuel which had led to power cuts.
India in February 2015 sealed a nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka and under the deal, India was to help Sri Lanka to build its nuclear energy infrastructure, including training of personnel. It was also planned that India could sell light small-scale nuclear reactors to Sri Lanka which had been wanted to establish 600 MW of nuclear capacity by 2030.
However, the project did not take off so far. (Colombo/Aug 05/2022)
Sri Lanka don’t have the money to pay for nuclear waste storage for 10, 000 years, at nuclear waste storage site.
Sri Lanka has only 65000 Squire KM s of land. If a nuclear accident happens, If will cause severe repercussions.
Besides, initial costs are enormous to built it.
Fukushima accident despite stringent safety measures showed the world how dangerous Nuclear accidents are.
You’re saying that we can’t use nuclear energy because of an accident that cost ONE (1) life? All the rest died as a result of the tsunami and the evacuation. With that standard we cannot use ANY energy source and might as well kill all of the human race.
Sri Lanka can’t afford nuclear power. Half-life of nuclear waste is about 10,000 years and has to be store securely and it is expensive.