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Russia, Bangladesh initial third contract on Ruppur NPP construction

MOSCOW, April 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Bangladesh have initialled the third contract on the construction and installation work of the preparatory stage for the Ruppur nuclear power plant, the communications department of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom reported on Friday. “The contract was initialled during an official visit of the Russian delegation to Dhaka during which Rosatom Deputy Director General Nikolai Spassky held full-format negotiations with State Minister of Science and Technology of Bangladesh Yafes Osman,” the report says. “The sides reached an agreement on prompt drawing up by the Bangladeshi side of documents on the preparatory stage contracts.” The third contract provides for the creation of a mechanisation and construction base at the Ruppur NPP site and the organisation of the construction and installation work “till the first concreting.” Rosatom reported that “to date, the works of the preparatory period are carried out, it is planned to complete them in 2016. After that the operations of the main stage of the construction will begin that usually take five to six years, it’s a standard work schedule.” “The Russian side plans to launch the Ruppur NPP in early 2020s in accordance with the earlier drafted schedule. We are meeting the schedule so far,” Rosatom said. The contracts signed to date provide for designing the plant, as well as for survey works at the site. The project documentation is also the basis for the licensing of the future NPP. Russia plans to grand an easy-term loan to Bangladesh for the preparatory period of the Ruppur NPP construction. Its sum will be about 500 million U.S. dollars. It was planned to begin the work with the Finance Ministry on the opening of credit financing after the signing of the third contract of the preparatory period. The country’s first NPP will be built in Ruppur on the eastern bank of the River Ganges in Pabna district, 160 kilometres northwest of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. It is planned to build two power units with VVER type reactors with the total capacity of some 2 gigawatt. The Russian side plans the Ruppur NPP launch for the early 2020s. Learn more on itar-tass.com

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