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Fuel for Rooppur power plant to arrive in Sept: Rosatom DG
Fuel for Rooppur power plant to arrive in
Sept: Rosatom DG
Fuel for Rooppur
Nuclear Power Plant will arrive in the country in September next, said visiting
Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation 'Rosatom' Director General Alexey
Likhachev on Monday.
The Rosatom DG said this while paying a country
call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter's official residence
Ganabhaban, reports UNB.
PM's
Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the meeting.
"The work of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
(RNPP) has progressed overcoming hundreds of obstacles and nuclear fuel for
this plant will arrive in Bangladesh in September," Alexey Likhachev was
quoted as saying.
During the meeting, the Rosatom Director General
apprised the prime minister of the overall progress of RNPP.
They also talked about the opening celebration
of the RNPP.
The prime minister thanked all the concerned for
advancing the work of RNPP despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the global crisis.
She also expressed her gratitude to Russia for
providing technology and financial assistance.
Recalling Russia's support and assistance in the
great Liberation War and in the reconstruction of Bangladesh after the war,
Sheikh Hasina hoped that Russian cooperation will continue in the future.
Science and Technology
Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman, PM's Ambassador-at-large Mohammad Ziauddin,
her Principal Secretary M. Tofazzel Hossain Miah, Senior Secretary of Science
and Technology Ministry Ziaul Hasan, PM's Special Assistant Dr. Shaheed Hossain
and Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Aleksandr Mantytsky were present