The Russian contractor of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project has said it will not supply fuel to the plant until all necessary inspections and scheduled procedures are completed.
“It should meet all international safety standards,” said Alexey Deriy, Atomstroyexport vice president and director of the construction project, UNB reported on Tuesday.
Terming the delivery of nuclear fuel to the power plant a complex multi-level process, he said the acceptance inspection will be held in Novosibirsk, Russia, in the near future, says a press release of Rosatom, the Russian contractor of the power plant.
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, equipped with two VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2,400MW, is being constructed under Russian design. VVER-1200 is an evolutionary generation III+ design that fully complies with all the international safety requirements.
The engineering division of the Rosatom State Corporation is implementing the project as the general contractor.
According to the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), the 2,400MW plant project, with two units, was undertaken in 2010.
A target was set by the government to complete the construction of the first unit in 2022 and the second unit in 2023.
But later the target was reset, and the first unit was to be completed by June 2024 and the second unit by June 2025.
