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Dhaka, October 1, 2013: To provide information on atomic energy to the people of Bangladesh, a Nuclear Energy Information Centre has been opened at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre at Bijoy Sarani in the city today, October 1. Yeafesh Osman, Hon’ble State Minister for Science and Technology formally inaugurated the Information Centre. The opening of the nuclear energy information centre in Dhaka is the outcome of the Memorandum, signed... »

Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 30, 2013 – Sergey Kirienko, Director General of Rosatom, State Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia arrives in Dhaka on October 1, 2013. He will be heading a high-powered delegation from Russia comprising high government officials, nuclear energy experts, nuclear educationists and others. During his visit S. Kirienko will accompany Sheikh Hasina, Hon’ble Prime Minister of Government of Bangladesh at the foundation laying ceremony of Rooppur Nuclear Power... »

The program of development of the Russian nuclear industry involves the construction of 24 new nuclear power units equipped with VVER reactors by 2030. This was disclosed by Jukka Laaksonen, Vice President of Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of ROSATOM, state nuclear energy corporation of Russia while speaking during the 2nd European Nuclear Power Briefing 2013 held between September 22 and 25 in Budapest, Hungary. He was making a presentation on... »

On the 24th of September Rosatom Will Put in Commission the First Power Unit of “Bushehr” NPP. Construction of the two-unit NPP with a total capacity of 2,460 MWt under the project of the Siemens/KWU concern was launched at the “Bushehr” side in the mid-seventies. The 1979 revolution in Iran resulted in overthrow of the monarchy and assumption of power by religious administration under the leadership of ayatollah Khomeini. In... »

Third foreign atomic energy information centre will be open in Dhaka (Bangladesh) on the 2nd of October. It is expected that the prime minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed, director general of the State Corporation “Rosatom” Sergey Kiriyenko, representatives of branch enterprises and the nuclear innovation consortium of Russia, and the chief executives of the pedagogical and scientific society will participate in the grand opening ceremony... »

Dhaka, 17th September, 2013: Foundation stone of nuclear power plant at Rooppur, Pabna is planned to be laid in the first week of October. This was confirmed by Sergey Kiriyenko, Head of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation – Rosatom. Simultaneously a contract for engineering design of the plant will be signed in Dhaka. Sergey Kiriyenko, along with a high power delegation from Rosatom will arrive Dhaka on October 2. in... »

12th August 2013, Moscow / Hyderabad : Rosatom in July 2013, successfully performed the passive fast-acting boron injection system (PFBIS) of the operating reactor, at Unit 1 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant ( NPP). This system has no analogues both in the national and global practice. Successful tests of PFBIS performed at the Indian VVER reactor, built under the Russian project, have become a new step towards further strengthening... »

At the end of June the contract for drafting the documents for substantiating the investments into construction and assessing the impact on the environment, as well as for conducting engineering survey on the site of the Ruppur NPP in Bangladesh was signed. Moscow’s company Atomenergoproekt will be involved in the works, performed in accordance with the contract. Atomenergoproekt has already been performing similar works on sites in Russia and abroad... »

Finnish nuclear power company Fennovoima and Rusatom Overseas, subsidiary of Russian ROSATOM, have agreed on a proposal to be submitted to Fennovoima shareholders with the aim of making an investment decision and signing a power plant supply contract by the end of 2013. As a result of negotiations with Rusatom Overseas Fennovoima proposes to its owners a nuclear power plant that, according to the schedule agreed with ROSATOM, will produce... »

August 23-25 XVI championship of Russia on fishing float rod, organised by the Russian Association of Public Associations Rosokhotrybolovsoyuz with support of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, JSC Concern Rosenergoatom was held at the cooling reservoir of Kalinin nuclear power plant. The competition attended by 69 top athletes from 12 regions of the Russian Federation (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Leningrad and Smolensk, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar and Yaroslavl regions, Bashkortostan) is... »