Abstract Bangladesh, as a newcomer country, is expecting to start her nuclear power journey by 2022. Due to evident reasons, newcomer nuclear countries face several key challenges concerning the development of national nuclear safety infrastructure. The paper investigates the status of the 7 key safety infrastructure issues out of the 19 and readiness of the supportive organizations, laboratories, and workforces following the International Atomic energy Agency’s status evaluation guide at milestone 3 and foreign countries’ practice. Much progress has been achieved at phase 3 regarding the establishments of Acts, a regulator, and an operator. However, comprehensive regulatory frameworks, skilled workforces, establishments of a few supportive organizations, and laboratories for managing environmental radioactivity, radiological accidents, and radioactive wastes are yet to ready. Several suggestions are made for establishing and expediting radiation monitoring laboratories, a radiological emergency management center, a radioactive waste management company, and technical support organizations for establishing the safety infrastructure. To avoid perceived risks, policymakers and competent authorities need to emphasize creating an optimized safety infrastructure before commissioning and operating the 1st nuclear power plant safely, securely, and cost-sustainably.

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孟加拉国核电计划核和辐射安全基础结构的发展和加强

摘要 孟加拉作为新兴国家，有望在2022年开启核电征程。由于种种原因，新兴核国家在国家核安全基础设施建设方面面临多项关键挑战。本文根据国际原子能机构的里程碑 3 状态评估指南和国外的实践，调查了 19 个关键安全基础设施问题中的 7 个关键安全基础设施问题的现状以及支持组织、实验室和劳动力的准备情况。第 3 阶段在建立法案、监管机构和运营商方面取得了很大进展。然而，综合监管框架、熟练的劳动力、少数支持性组织的建立以及管理环境放射性、放射性事故、和放射性废物尚未准备好。提出建设和加快辐射监测实验室、辐射应急管理中心、放射性废物管理公司和安全基础设施建设技术支持机构建设的若干建议。为避免感知风险，政策制定者和主管当局需要强调在安全、可靠和成本可持续地调试和运营第一核电站之前创建优化的安全基础设施。