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Safety measures taken centering constructing of Rooppur Power Plant: Yeafesh
DHAKA, Jan 25, 2019 (BSS) – Science and Technology minister Yeafesh Osman, today asked the people of not worrying over the building of nuclear power plant at Rooppur as sufficient safety measures have been planned in this regard.
“There is nothing to worry about…Nowadays nuclear plants use modern technologies. We don’t think there will be any problem and have focused on ensuring the safety of the plant and the people as well,” he said.
He was speaking at a meeting on monitoring the progress of the power plant at the project site at Iswardi, Pabna, said a press release.
“We are following the safety guidelines of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” he said adding, “Moreover Russian Federation, IAEA and our local regulatory technicians are evaluating the safety measures,”
Two units — 1,200 MWe VVER each — are to be built at Rooppur under the Russian design giving priority to the highest safety measures at Rooppur, some 160km from Dhaka. The VVER-1,200 reactor design has already been implemented at Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II in Russia.
Unit-1 is scheduled to be commissioned in 2023, while the commissioning of the second unit is slated for 2024 to produce 2,400 megawatts of electricity from the two units.
Secretary of the ministry M Anwar Hossain, Director of the project Dr. Showkat Akbar and senior officials of ROSATOM were present, among others.
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