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The first nuclear fuel has been delivered to the construction site of the Rooppur NPP in Bangladesh, representing the transition of the plant to the formal status of a nuclear facility. The ceremony marking the event was attended by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Rafael Mariano Grossi) by video link. Present at the event were Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, and the Bangladesh Minister of Science & Technology Yafesh Osman and other official guests.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 11 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrosatom-delivers-first-fuel-to-rooppur-11205734
Moscow building two VVER reactors at Ganges River site
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-delivers-first-batch-of-nuclear-fuel-for-rooppur-10-4-2023
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Russian President Vladimir Putin and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi have taken part in a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first batch of nuclear fuel at the Rooppur nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-nuclear-fuel-delivered-as-Bangladesh-joins-n
The delivery of nuclear fuel to the Rooppur NPP under construction in Bangladesh will begin in September 2023 according to Minister of Science & Technology Yafesh Osman. The fuel will be delivered to Dhaka by air, and then transported by land transport to the plant site. The Bangladeshi military will take control of the ground part of the logistics operation. “We are expecting that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general and Russian president will virtually join our prime minister at the handover programme," he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 08 July 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-delivery-for-rooppur-npp-to-begin-in-september-10990694
The concreting of the first tier of the inner containment has been completed at the Rooppur-1 nuclear power plant under construction in Bangladesh, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.
Rosatom, whose engineering division is the general contractor for the project, said the concreting is “one of the key events” in the construction of the plant.
“We have completed concreting work on the first tier to a height of six metres, with 1,145 cubic metres of concrete laid,” said project spokesman Yury Koshelev.
Rosatom said installation of the main equipment of the reactor compartment will begin in 2020.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/rosatom-announces-concreting-landmark-at-rooppur-1-10-1-2019
Uzbekistan's preparations to build its first nuclear power plant are gathering pace with a sense of making up for lost time. The Central Asian country became a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as long ago as 1994, has 50 years of experience in nuclear research and is the world's fifth biggest producer of uranium.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 04 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-most-experienced-newcomer-to-nuclear-power
First concrete was poured on 30 November for the basemat of unit 1 at Bangladesh’s first nuclear plant, marking the formal start of construction of the Russian-supplied VVER-1200 reactor. Two 1200MWe units are to be built at Rooppur, on the eastern bank of the river Ganges, with the first unit scheduled to begin commercial operation in 2023 followed by the second in 2024.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 04 December 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-concrete-for-bangladesh-npp-5993014
Construction of Bangladesh's first nuclear power reactor, Rooppur 1, has officially begun with the pouring of the first concrete for the VVER-1200 reactor's basemat. Work on the Russian-designed and supplied plant was ceremonially started by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-under-way-at-Rooppur-1
Just days after the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) issued the first site licence for the Rooppur nuclear power plant, the country's cabinet has approved the draft of an intergovernmental agreement that will see Russia provide $11.38 billion in credit for the project.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 28 June 2016
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Bangladesh-moves-forward-with-Rooppur
Russia has agreed to provide $500 million to finance the initial stages of Bangladesh's first nuclear power project. Preparatory work could begin at the Rooppur site in 2014.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2013
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russian-loan-for-Rooppur-construction