BD team to visit Russia soon for signing deal

Nuclear power plant installation
BD team to visit Russia soon for signing deal
The move towards installing a nuclear power plant has gone one step forward as the Russian government has invited Bangladesh to send a delegation to visit its nuclear-power projects and sign deals.
“We have received an invitation recently from the Russian government to visit its different projects. They proposed the visit to be made at the end of the current month (July),” a top official of the Science and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry told UNB. According to the official, in response to the Russian offer, Bangladesh government is now taking preparation to send the team.
He said the state minister for Science and ICT himself might lead the
delegation on the important mission.
As per the plan, during the visit, an agreement will be signed between the two countries at the state level to move forward the nuclear-power project in Bangladesh, vexed by nagging power shortages.
The purpose of the visit is to ink a deal between the two nations and to have experience and learn about the Russian nuclear-power technology, the official said.
Earlier on May 13, Bangladesh and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Dhaka agreeing to enhance cooperation between the two countries for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.The main purpose of the MoU is to take necessary steps for building a 600-1000-megawatt power plant in Bangladesh.
As per that agreement, the state-owned Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation-Rosatom-will work together to push forward the proposed power-plant project.
After the MoU signing, both the countries reached an understanding that a Bangladesh delegation led
by the ICT State Minister would
visit Russia to oversee the nuclear- power projects and also learn about the operation of nuclear reactor and other issues.
Bangladesh moves for implementing the nuclear-power project at a time when the country has been experiencing nagging power crises for ever-growing demand for electricity.
Business and industry here
have huge untapped potential but suffer a lot for this nagging power crisis-and there is no immediate remedy for the crisis as there is gas crisis prevailing as well.

Courtesy of The Bangladesh Today