Staff Reporter :
The cabinet approved a draft policy for radioactive waste management with a provision that polluters will have to bear the costs for disposing of radioactive wastes.
The approval came at the Cabinet meeting held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her office on Monday.
“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.
There will also be an advisory body headed by the Science and Technology Minister for the research council, he added.
Besides, the Cabinet gave approval to the draft of the Bangladesh Lighthouse Bill, 2019 making the existing the Lighthouse Act, 1927 as a time-befitting one, said Shafiul Alam.
As per the bill, there will be a port lighthouse authority to supervise and run the country’s port lighthouses, he said.
The levy (charge) collection process of lighthouses has been made easier in the bill.
The cabinet approved a draft policy for radioactive waste management with a provision that polluters will have to bear the costs for disposing of radioactive wastes.
The approval came at the Cabinet meeting held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at her office on Monday.
“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.
There will also be an advisory body headed by the Science and Technology Minister for the research council, he added.
Besides, the Cabinet gave approval to the draft of the Bangladesh Lighthouse Bill, 2019 making the existing the Lighthouse Act, 1927 as a time-befitting one, said Shafiul Alam.
As per the bill, there will be a port lighthouse authority to supervise and run the country’s port lighthouses, he said.
The levy (charge) collection process of lighthouses has been made easier in the bill.
