Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate installation work of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-2 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) on Wednesday morning.
She will virtually inaugurate the installation of the reactor pressure vessel in the 2nd unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna from her official residence Ganabhaban at 10am on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, 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 Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is about to complete with the installation of reactor pressure vessel tomorrow.
"The project work is going as per the designated time line and the project will be completed within the stipulated time," he said.
Osman said that 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 implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant smoothly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is materializing the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," he said.
Director General of Rosatom, Russia's Atomic Energy Organization, 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 reactor pressure vessel holds nuclear fuel when the reactors operate and provides 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 reactor pressure vessel at the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, 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 1,200MW 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% of it is being funded by Russia.
Nuclear Scientist and the Project Director of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Dr Md Shaukat Akbar said that the project has seen around 53% financial progress and 55% physical progress. However, the overall progress of the first unit is 70%.
At present, there are around 33000 manpower working at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site including 5500 foreigners.
