Dangerous development in Sri Lanka to build 1-GW nuclear power plant .

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Who is going to assist Sri Lanka to acquire Nuclear technology ?
This is an absolute dangerous development in Sri Lanka given the close close associations of the GOSL and the first family with unreliable and rogue regimes like Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, and Libya.
Pakistan and China who provided both legal and illegal weapons to Sri Lanka to finish off the LTTE Tigers have all the nuclear technology to build nuclear plants which can also produce nuclear weapons.
China has deep pockets to develop such secret projects without even international supervision.

The President has already snubbed the western powers last year as confessed by the Editorial in the Island, whose editor is well known to be close to the administration of the GOSL. There has been no retraction by the newspapers no denial by the GOSL or foreign ministry that the President avoided phone calls from the State Department, British Government, EU officials, Norway and snubbed India.

There are already elements of the Sinhala extremist in the Cabinet and government. Those who were members of the rebel group the JVP. One of their leaders of the 1971 insurrection and who was jailed was a cabinet minister, until last year, when he was injured in a bomb incident in deep South, near Hambantota. What type of elements of the radical Sinhalese would be in charge of the GOSL in 2030 when nuclear technology would be fully availbale among them? Already the radical JHU member is the minister of Power in the current cabinet.
These are absolutely dangerous trends the international community should take notice and nip it in the bud.
The International community shouldn't forget that GOSL has become a virtual puppet of China, Pakistan and Iran. What would be India's reaction to this dangerous development?

Sri Lanka to build 1-GW nuclear power plant by 2030

COLOMBO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is to have its first nuclear power plant within the next 20 years to generate cheap electricity to draw large investments and boost its post-war economy, a top government official said on Monday.
"We have received government clearance to set up a nuclear power plant of 1,000 MW," M.M.C. Ferdinando, the secretary of the Ministry of Power and Energy told an investor forum in Colombo.
Ferdinando said the government would begin feasibility studies soon for nuclear power in addition to coal, and hoped to get safety approval from the World Atomic Energy Authority.
"You have to have the plant and safety measures for disposal before starting the plant by 2030."
Ferdinando did not elaborate on the cost or whether Sri Lanka would get help from Iran, which has been a staunch anti-western ally of the island nation and its main crude oil supplier.
Investors have long complained of expensive electricity and poor infrastructure, neglected during a 25-year war that ended in May last year, had deterred potential investors.
The $42-billion economy, which currently depends 60 percent on diesel power and 40 percent on hydro power, is in the process of building a 900-MW coal power plant with a loan of more than $1.3 billion from China and a 500 MW coal power plant with an Indian loan.
Sri Lanka plans to cut its diesel power dependence to 20 percent of total electricity generation by 2017 once both coal power plants have started full operation. (Reporting by Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)