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
So far India has been helping Bangladesh’s dream for nuclear power by providing consultancy services for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, but now it is also giving material assistance. Bangladesh has started import of cement from India for the construction of its maiden nuclear power plant. The assistance is part of the tripartite agreement signed between Bangladesh, India and Russia on March 1 in Moscow. While Russia would remain the... » 
It was almost a decade prior that India’s nuclear isolation ended with the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement, but even now only one project under foreign collaboration has seen the light of the day. Two major projects with the US and French firms have been hanging fire with not even a concrete agreement with Indian Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) in sight. However, by the year end French major... » 
Installation of “core catcher”, the device for catching molten core (active part of the reactor that contains nuclear fuel) material has commenced at unit no. 1 of Roopur Nuclear Power Plant. It is an important element in the passive safety system of a most modern nuclear reactor. Architect Yeafesh Osman, Minister for Science and Technology, Alexander Khazin, Senior Vice-President for Overseas Projects, Atomstroyexport (ASE), Dr. Mohammad Shawkat Akbar, Project Director... » 
Fuel loading of Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s only floating nuclear power unit (FNPU) so far, begins in Russia . After getting necessary permission from Rostechnadzor, regulatory body of Russia the stage by stage fuel loading starts on July 25 at the Atomflot ( subsidiary of Rosatom) base in Murmansk . Akademik Lomonosov will be based at Pevek in the Chukotka peninsula and will gradually replace the Bilibino NPP and the... »
“Nuclear & Science Week 2018” organized by Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom in collaboration with Atomstroyexport, general contractor of Rooppur nuclear power plant, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and ‘Energy of the Future’, a Russian network of nuclear energy information centers around the Globe ends in Dhaka on July 20, 2018. The festival began in Pabna on July 14 and continued in 13 different venues at Iswardi, Kushtia, Rajshahi... »
In a spectacular amalgamation of music and nuclear energy, the International Children’s Creativity Project – “Nuclear Kids” – is being organized in Hungary by Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation. Five students from India and Bangladesh are participating in the musical extravaganza. Suhaib Hussian and Kysan Faraj, school students from Dhaka are in Hungary at the moment in connection with the “Nuclear Kids” program. A total of 79 kids from... »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Deputy Prime Minister of Russian Federation YuryIvanovich Borisov on Saturday jointly inaugurated the construction of the second reactor unit of Rooppur nuclear power plant here. Both the leaders poured concrete at a programme here on the occasion of the first concrete pouring of the second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. The construction of the first reactor unit began on November 30, 2017. Currently the... »
The second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) has got the license. Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) has given the license on Sunday. The license was formally handed over at a ceremony at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city. Professor Dr. Naiyyum Choudhury, the chairman of BAERA has said that, all the required assessment is done. The license is given after a successful completion of all... » 
The license for the construction of the second unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is likely to come through by the end of June. Presently, the verification process for the related documents and other routine standard checking is going on. Once these processes are over, the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) will grant the license. “The Regulatory Authorities are reviewing the whole matter. If all goes right, the... » 
Bangladesh is undertaking a project to lay a new railway line and is modernizing the rail line between Ishwardi and its first nuclear power plant that is under construction at Rooppur in Pabna district. The project entails 26.52 km-long rail line. Out of this 9 km line will be constructed afresh and the rest 17.52 km existing line will be converted into dual-gauge rail-line. Member of the Socio-economic Infrastructure of... »