Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAddressing the proceedings, Science and Technology Secretary\nAnwar Hossain said:”Once the proposed agreement receives the vetting, the\nBangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) will proceed with a plan to have it\nsigned with a Russian uranium supply company in September next.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BAEC has been implementing the nuclear power project as\na government entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously on June 19, the Cabinet Committee on Public\nPurchase approved the proposal on the nuclear fuel supply for the RNPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As per the proposal, Russian state-owned firm TVEL Joint\nStock Company will supply the fuel for the \u201centire lifetime\u201d of the 2,400MW\nRNPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plant will have two units, each having 1200MW power\ngeneration capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the inter-governmental agreement (IGA) signed\nwith the Russian Federation in November 2011, Bangladesh will have to purchase\nnuclear fuel from the Russian company for the entire lifetime of the power\nplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each unit of the power plant will have to reload one-thirds\nof the total required nuclear fuel in every 18 months and the first, second and\nthird reload will be provided by the Russian firm for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each reloading of nuclear fuel will cost $62 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was also mentioned in the Science and Technology\nMinistry’s proposal that the price of one kilogram of uranium which is used as\nnuclear fuel is $550, and this price will remain unchanged till 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the cost of fuel will be reviewed and reset after\nevery 10 years of supply, said the proposal. The plant’s operational lifetime\nis estimated to be 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in January, 2019, Dhaka and Moscow inked a proposed\nagreement on nuclear fuel supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bangladesh government has engaged Russian nuclear energy\nfirm Rosatom as contractor for the RNPP project at a cost of $12.65 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides, the officials said, Rosatom has already been paid\n$550 million for a feasibility study and design purpose of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially, it was said by the contractor that the first unit\nof the RNPP will come into operation by 2022 while the second unit by 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A representative of the Rosatom informed that the first\nreactor of the plant will come into Bangladesh in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology are\ndoubtful about the start of the operation as per schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bangladesh signed agreement with Russia for uranium supply Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project. According to sources at the Ministry of Science and Technology, a proposed agreement has already been sent to the Law Ministry for its vetting after it was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Addressing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[366],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-rooppur-nuclear-power-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}