LATEST STATE OF PLAY IN BANGLADESH’S LONG STALLED INSTALLATION OF NUCLEAR POWER
August 1st, 2009
BY MARK GODFREY
THE NUCLEAR power authorities of Bangladesh deny they have reached terms with Russia's Rosatom atomic energy corporation, despite Russian claims that it had secured the deal to build Bangladesh's long-planned nuclear plant. Mohammed Muzammel Haque, chief engineer at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), claims Bangladesh has opted to build a 1,100 MW plant. But neither the time frame for completion nor the technology supplier for the long-planned plant at Rooppur, western Bangladesh plant have been decided. "We are still exploring ...
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