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Rooppur nuke project opens tomorrow

Ahmed Humayun Kabir TOPU, Palma
Rooppur people in Pabna are now in upbeat mood as the first phase work for the proposed Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is going to be inaugurated tomorrow.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the country's first ever nuclear power plant. Sergey Kirienko, director general of Russia's state-owned nuclear power operator, Rosatom, is also expected to attend the programme.
Under an agreement with the government, Rosatom will construct two units
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of the Rooppur NPP, each of 1,000 MW capacity. The first unit is expected to be commissioned by the beginning of the next decade.
The groundbreaking ceremony is going to be held two years after Dhaka signed a crucial framework agreement with Moscow for the country's maiden nuclear plant at a cost of $1.5 to 2 billion. However, the cost has notyetbeen finalised.
Mostafizur Rahman, Pabna deputy commissioner, said the PM would lay the foundation stone of the project at the plant site at about 10:00am.
In the afternoon, the premier would address a
public meeting in Rooppur where she is expected to open some 30 development projects of the district, Mostafizur added.
Contacted, Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu, local lawmaker and also president of Pabna district unit AL, said the Rooppur people had been awaiting the nuclear power plant for about 52 years.
Meanwhile, a high-powered Russian delegation led by Sergey Kirienko arrives in Dhaka today. The delegation includes high government officials, nuclear energy experts, nuclear educationists and others.
Kirienko, also a former prime minister of Russia,
will also attend the opening ceremony of Atomic Industry Information Centre at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre in the capital today and the agreement signing ceremony between Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and NIAEP, a Russian nuclear power plant engineering, design and construction company, on development of engineering design of the Rooppur NPP.
Kirienko will hold several formal meetings, including a call on Sheikh Hasina. Besides, he will meet state minister for science and technology, BAEC officials and others during the visit.