Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the installation work of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-2 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) on Wednesday morning.
The prime minister will virtually inaugurate the installation of the RPV in the second unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna from Ganabhaban at 10 am on Wednesday, reports BSS.
Talking to reporters at RNPP, Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman said that in line with the first unit, all major nuclear equipment installation works of the second unit of the RNPP are about to be complete with the installation of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV).
"The project work is going as per the designated timeline and the project will be completed within the stipulated time," he said.
Osman said that the installation of almost all types of nuclear equipment will be completed by installing the reactor pressure vessel inside the physical structure of the second unit.
"Through the implementation of the RNPP smoothly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is materialising the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," he said.
Director General of Rosatom, Russia's Atomic Energy Organisation, Alexey Likhachev will attend the ceremony in person.
According to the project details, Bangladeshi and Russian officials at the Rooppur project have already completed all the preparations for the installation.
It said the RPV holds nuclear fuel when the reactors operate and provide one of several barriers that keep radioactive material out of the environment.
Earlier on 10 October of last year, the Prime Minister had inaugurated the RPV at the first unit of the RNPP, which entitled Bangladesh as the 33rd country to have a nuclear power plant
for producing electricity from nuclear energy.
As per the project plan, the first unit of the nuclear power plant will supply 1,200 MW in 2023 and the same amount of electricity will be available from the second unit in 2024.
The Rooppur project is being implemented by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission with the technical and financial support of Russia.
The project's construction cost, including manpower training, amounts to $12.65 billion, and 90 per cent of it is being funded by Russia.
Nuclear Scientist and the project director of the RNPP project Dr Md Shaukat Akbar said that the project has seen around 53 per cent financial progress and 55 per cent physical progress. However, the overall progress of the first unit is 70 per cent.
At present, around 33,000 personnel are working at the RNPP site, including 5,500 foreigners.