DHAKA, 12 October 2021, (TON): The prime minister inaugurated the reactor pressure vessel installation work of RNPP.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought constant support from Russia for building another nuclear power plant in Bangladesh’s southern region.

She said during a meeting with Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation Director General (DG) Alexey Likhachev at Ganabhaban in Dhaka “Once the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is completed, we’ll go for setting up another in the southern region of the country. We need constant Russian support in this regard.”

Briefing the reporters after the meeting, the prime minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said “Likhachev also expressed his country’s willingness to continue support to Bangladesh’s power sector.”

Rooppur power plant in Pabna, which consists of two units with a capacity of 1,200MW each, is the first nuclear one in Bangladesh. The project is being implemented by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and built with Russia’s technical and financial support.