Acceptance inspection of the initial batch of fresh nuclear fuel for Unit-1 of Rooppur NPP has taken place at Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of Rosatom’s Fuel Company (TVEL), recently, a press release said Friday.
Representatives of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), NCCP, TVEL, and Atomstroyexport (ASE), participated in the fuel acceptance inspection.
Following the inspection, Dr. Shawkat Akbar, Project Director, of Rooppur NPP Construction Project, and Alexey Deriy, Vice President of ASE signed the acceptance protocol, which paves the way for the shipment of the first batch of nuclear fuel to Bangladesh from the manufacturing plant. The fuel is expected to arrive in Bangladesh by September 2023.
Rooppur NPP is under construction at Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district. Two units of the project with a total capacity of 2,400MWe are being constructed under Russian design. Each unit will be equipped with Generation 3+ VVER-1200 reactor that fully complies with all the international safety requirements.
