Rooppur NPP installs reactor support truss at unit-1
FE REPORT | Thursday, 3 October 2019
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project authority has installed reactor support truss at 1,200-megawatt (MW) capacity at unit-1 of the under-construction plant at Rooppur in Pabna.
The support truss was installed on Sunday to fix the reactor vessel in place and to bear its weight loads.
It was installed as per the design, prepared by Atomstroyexport (ASE), the engineering division of Russia's state corporation -- Rosatom.
Atomstroyexport is the general designer and general contractor of the project.
"It is a very complicated job which needs maximum possible accuracy. Installation was completed ahead of schedule," said ASE Vice-president and Director for Rooppur NPP construction project Sergey Lastochkin.
"Construction of unit-1 and unit-2 with the electricity generation capacity of 1,200-MW each is progressing according to schedule," he also said.
Rooppur NPP is being constructed according to Russian design.
The project will consist of two units.
The first unit with 1,200-MW capacity is expected to be in operation by 2023 and the second unit -- with the same capacity -- by 2024.
The construction of the Rooppur plant is based on the Russia-Bangladesh intergovernmental agreement in the area of nuclear power plant construction, signed on November 02, 2011.
The Rooppur project has a total cost estimate of around Taka 1.13 trillion (US$ 13.48 billion), with Russian financing worth US$ 11.38 billion being provided to Bangladesh for the project. The Russian Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs, and Bangladesh's state-owned Sonali Bank Limited will work as authorised banks for the state loan.
Rooppur will feature two reactors.
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission has assigned India's Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership to act as a consultant for construction and operation of the plant.