Company to operate proposed Rooppur nuclear plant

The cabinet at a regular meeting on Monday cleared a draft law namely Nuclear Power Plant Act 2015. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chaired the meeting.

This law allows forming company to operate Bangladesh’s proposed nuclear power plant at Pabna’s Rooppur. A company, Nuclear Power Company of Bangladesh, will be set up under the Act.

Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said, the government expects the plant to start production in 2021.

Power-starved Bangladesh has inked an agreement with Russia for constructing a nuclear power plant in Rooppur.