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Bangladesh Plant: Stage construction likely begin in Sept

UNB . Dhaka | Update:21:47, 02 Aug 2014

The preparatory stage construction work on the 2000 MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project is likely to begin in September this year.

The preparatory stage works include civil construction of different important offices, site development, access roads, hydraulic infrastructures, loading-unloading facilities of equipment, jetties at rivers, laboratories, flood protection structures, and also other utilities.

According to a highly placed source at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), Rosatom, the Russian contractor of the RNPP project, will start the work as the government has already made its 10% down payment to the Russian authorities against the project cost.

The total project cost was estimated to be about US$ 2 billion for the first unit of the 2000 MW plant while feasibility study and relevant work and its design will cost $ 500 million. The government signed a number of agreements with Rosatom to implement the project
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