Rosatom's Engineering Division announced its plan to deliver nuclear fuel to the under-construction Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh in 2023.
"On July 31, 2023, CEO of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev visited Bangladesh, where he met with Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. During the meeting, they discussed important matters related to the construction of the Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), as well as the readiness of the site for a significant production event - the importation of fresh nuclear fuel for the first unit of the Ruppur NPP, which is currently under construction," the report reads.
According to Likhachev, as quoted by the press service, the delivery of nuclear fuel to the plant site "will signify the transition of the under-construction NPP to the status of a nuclear facility and will make Bangladesh a member of the 'nuclear club' of countries that utilize peaceful atomic energy."
The Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant, featuring two VVER-1200 reactors with a combined capacity of 2,400 MW, is being constructed based on a Russian design, located 160 km from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, under a general contract signed on December 25, 2015. The selection of the Russian design with VVER-1200 reactors, which has been successfully implemented at two power units of the Novovoronezh NPP, marks the choice for Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant. This design is an evolutionary Generation 3+ technology, fully compliant with international safety standards.
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Based on materials from TASS