Dhaka Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- Fuel Oil Sales: BPC Incurring Daily Loss of Tk 780 Million
- It Will Take Time to Break Free from the Cycle of Corruption in the Power Sector: Information Minister
- Electricity Prices Increased for All Consumers
- Approval Given to Purchase Three LNG Cargoes
- Diesel, Kerosene Prices Cut By 50p For November
- AI Boom To Fuel Natural Gas Demand In Coming Years, Report Says
- Bangladesh signs €477m deals with EU and EIB for renewable energy and more
- The Current Oil Price Rally Is Reaching Its Limits
Nuclear
The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) has granted a Limited Work Permit (LWP) for construction of Unit 2 of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, the first ever nuclear power facility in the country. Four units with the 3+ generation VVER-1200 reactors are being constructed in the Turkish southern province of Mersin with the financial and technical assistance from Russia. Limited Work Permit is an important stage in the process of licensing... »
world’s only floating nuclear power plant (FNPP)-AkademikLomonosovis expected to start injecting electricity to Russia’s power grid next year, ushering a new era in global nuclear power industry.Built by Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation Reactorof Unit-1 has successfully gone through the first stage of its power start-up , last week ( December10) in Murmansk of Russia. Power start-up is a series of functional and safety tests to be conducted on... »
Republic of Rwanda has signed intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear energy in Moscow recently. The Intergovernmental agreement was signed following the memorandum of understanding signed between Rosatom State Corporation of Russia and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Rwanda on June 22, 2018 in Moscow. Aleksey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General and Claver Gatete,Rwandan Minister for Infrastructure signed the agreement on behalf of their respective... »
A team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts confirmed the commitment to safety principles by the Rosenergoatom, a concern of the Russia’s Rosatom Electric Power Division. The experts also pointed out that some of the good practices, pursued by the company can benefit the entire global nuclear community. Rosenergoatom first hosted the OSART (Operating Safety Review Team) Mission of the IAEA from November 11 to 27, 2018. “From the... »
RITU SHARMA Apart from setting a new template for trilateral partnership in the arena of international nuclear cooperation, the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is also giving a platform to Indian nuclear industry players to keep their order book rolling. Many Indian infrastructure majors are taking part in the construction of the Bangladesh’s maiden nuclear power plant. While the critical technology, like the core of the nuclear reactor, will be supplied... » 
Bangladesh’s Finance Ministry has recently sanctioned the budget for second phase of construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP). The amount allotted for this phase is USD 42.33 million. According to the sources from the Ministry of Science and Technology, earlier the government had sanctioned USD 77.22 million for the first phase of the RNPP project. So far a total of USD 1.2 billion has been sanctioned for the... »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the second nuclear power plant would be constructed in the southern part of the country. “The government has already conducted survey in several islands in Barisal and we will choose any of those islands to construct the country’s next nuclear power plant,” the prime minister said this while inaugurating the Golden Jubilee programme of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (BSMC) through video conference from her... »
On sideline of the 19th India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit, held in New Delhi, both the countries on Friday have signed a deal for cooperation in implementing of a new nuclear power project in India. The new project will have six power units with latest Generation 3+ VVER 1200 reactors. The action plan document was signed by India’s Department of Atomic Energy Secretary Kamlesh Vyas and Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev.... »
Unit 4 of China’s Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant being constructed with technical assistance from Atomstroyexpor (ASE), Engineering Division of Rosatom,Russia was brought to minimum controllable level of power yesterday, September 30, 2018. It is the final stage of the first criticality procedures. The first criticality procedures of power unit No.4 commenced on 25 August 2018 when upon completion of all preparatory works the first fuel assembly (FA) was loaded into... »
Power and Energy Week - 2018
Rooppur NPP pavilion at ICCB creates huge interest among the visitors
To create awareness about the modern nuclear power technology, safety and eco-friendliness of nuclear energy, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) set up a pavilion at a fair organized at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in connection with the Power and Energy Week 2018. Over 2000 people visited the pavilion during the three day fair which ends today, September 8. The eye-catching design of the Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP)... »