The Dhaka information centre of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Project is scheduled to open for public at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre on October 1.
The centre would have a nuclear safety model and anyone could get information on atomic energy from there for free, said Arshad Hossain, director general of the Novo Theatre.
Set up with financial and technical support from the Russian State Atomic Energy Commission (Rosatom), the centre will be opened at 8:30am.
Another centre is supposed to be set up at the project site at Rooppur in Pabna two months later, said the project’s Officer-in-Charge KBM Ruhul Kuddus.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the groundwork of the 2,000MW Rooppur plant on October 2.
The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission under the science and technology ministry will implement the project.
Arshad said State Minister for Science and Technology Yeafesh Osman and Rosatom DG Sergey Kirienko were expected to inaugurate to open the information centre, which would contain an up-to-date high-tech cinema equipped with panorama 3D projection, computer graphics and animation, stereo sound and interactive consoles.
The centres’ main goals are to provide all stakeholders with general knowledge and information, increase popularity of nuclear science, impart technical education to young generation, motivate learning and creative activities of school students, and demonstrate most recent scientific and technological achievements to professionals.
