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Rooppur Nuke Power Plant

3 major jobs to be completed this year

M Abul Kalam Azad
Work on the Rooppur nuclear power plant is going on with an aim to issue site licence, determine techno-economic solutions and assess environmental impacts by this year.
The licence will guarantee that the site is suitable for construction, operation and maintenance of a specific technology and capacity reactor.
The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority will issue the licence on the basis of normative acts and regulations of the governments of Bangladesh and Russia and with the recommendation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"While environmental impact assessment [EIA] is in progress, determination of techno-economic solutions is expected to begin soon," said Shawkat Akbar, project director for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
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Two crucial issues - technology and the cost - of the reactor would be determined in the techno-economic solutions, he added.
These have been done under the first deal Dhaka and Moscow inked in June last year in their quest for a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.
Activities of the nuke plant construction slowed down due to political turmoil in Bangladesh and yearend vacation in the last couple of months. However, the project director said they were very much on target of completing all activities in time.
"Another vital issue is the design and safety documentation of the reactor, which we are going to start soon with a target to complete in the given 24 months," Shawkat told The Daily Star.
The documentation is being done under a deal signed between the two
countries in October last year when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country's first nuke plant in Rooppur.
Design and drawing of the reactor, working and construction condition, and structures of the nuke plant would also be done in this phase.
Basement for establishment of the reactor will be done at this stage, which is called the First Concrete Boring (FCB). "With the FCB we will step into the nuclear world,” said the project director.
The two countries have meanwhile started discussion to sign the third deal for preparation of nuclear plant construction through developing required infrastructure, service facilities and setting up of equipment on the site.
"All the activities will be completed by 2016 so that we can kick off construction of the reaction unit at the beginning of 2017," said Yeafesh
Osman, state minister for science and technology.
Both the minister and the PD expressed the hope that installation of the reactor would be completed by 2020 with a view to adding power to the national grid the following year.
Russia is giving technical and financial support to build the plant and has promised to install the latest and safest type of reactor complying with all post-Fukushima international safety regulations. Russian state nuclear power company Rosatom would provide the nuclear power plant.
Last year, Moscow provided Dhaka a $500 million loan to complete the preparatory works.
Russia, which is now building several dozen nuke plants in different countries, will also provide 90 percent of the construction cost that ranges between Tk 12,000 crore and Tk 15,000 crore.