Rooppur power plant project
Moscow-Dhaka reach deal on nuclear waste issue
UNB
Bangladesh has signed an agreement with Russia on repatriation of spent fuel of the Rooppur nuclear power plant project (RNPP), reports UNB.
According to a statement of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, the governments of the Russian Federation and Bangladesh signed a collaboration agreement on Wednesday in Moscow on import of spent nuclear fuel of Rooppur NPP to Russia.
The agreement was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Chief Executive Officer of Rosatom- the State Atomic Energy Corporation of Russia, and Yafes Osman, Minister for Science and Technology of Bangladesh.
The agreement stipulates provisions for reprocessing of the spent Russian nuclear fuel from the Rooppur NPP at subsidiary enterprises of Rosatom. Implementation of the Agreement will define the procedure for treatment of the spent nuclear fuel of Rooppur NPP project, the statement said.
Rooppur NPP will be equipped with two Russian VVER reactors, each with a minimum capacity of 1,200 MW. The VVER-1200 offered by Rosatom is a modern generation 3+ project which meets all post-Fukushima safety standards and international rules, said Alexey Likhachev.
The agreement constitutes a major milestone of the Rooppur NPP construction project which has become a symbol of a new stage in development of bilateral cooperation of our countries even before the start of the construction.
Both the sides have prepared an intergovernmental Agreement on the treatment of the spent nuclear fuel of the Rooppur NPP.
In accordance with the established procedure, the document was approved by the Russian government and Bangladesh government. It is planned to prepare and sign commercial contracts as part of the further development of the intergovernmental agreement.
The Rooppur NPP is the largest joint project based on Russian technologies that will allow Bangladesh to enter into the international community of countries, who use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Implementation of the project is given the highest national priority in Bangladesh.
The construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is implemented under an intergovernmental agreement signed between Russia and Bangladesh on November 2nd, 2011.
On December 25th, 2015 ASE group of companies (ROSATOMs subsidiary) signed a contract to construct Rooppur NPP consisting of two VVER power units, each with a capacity of 1200 MW.
