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September 25, 2007

Bangladesh government plans to ask IAEA to evaluate and otherwise assist in a plan to construct a nuclear power plant in the northern district of Pabna, according to Shafiqul Islam Bhuiyan, head of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. He said the billion-dollar plant is planned to be operational by 2015. The nation's current peak electrical generating capacity of 3,000 megawatts is about 2,000megawatts less than demand. Last year, violence over power cuts in a northern Bangladesh town left at least 20 people dead in clashes between police and farmers who had demanded more electricity for irrigation. A military-backed government took over the country in January after a state of emergency was imposed.

[Source: Agence France Presse, "BANGLADESH INFRASTRUCTURE: Government plans $1 billion nuclear plant", Bangkok Post, Sept 25, 2007, p. 5]

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