FHM Humayan Kabir and Rezaul Karim
The Government soon a US$ 265 million deal with a Russian company for the draft a proposal for a 1,000 megawatt (MW) Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) would sign, officials said Saturday.
Officials of the Ministry of science and technology, said that she selected the Russian State company Atomstroyexport.
"We already have support from the concerned government body, the highest government agency purchase approval sought." If we get the contract, the deal with the Russian company will be signed soon, "a senior Ministry official said the FE.
The Russian company would a performance survey of the plant carry out, a design and the list, the priority areas develop work on nuclear power under the deal, plants, he added.
"We have already signed the first contract with the Atomstroyexport. It is technical and economic solutions for the feasibility study, do the environmental impact assessment through the following local and international standards and perform an engineering survey on site specification to obtain a site license for the N plant, ", said Dr. Shawkat Akbar, project manager of the Rooppur NPP.
But under the second deal be signed, the company would develop a version of the system by detailing structure planning, specification, etc., he added.
"The Atomstroyexport quoted a price of $299.3 million for the design of work. Then we were negotiating with the Russian company. "After some meet the society has agreed to lower the price to $265 million", a senior Ministry official said.
Already in June 2013, the first business with $49.5 million with the Russian company signed the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC).
The BAEC undertook the ambitious nuclear power generation project in the past year. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) last April approved the TK 52,42 billion project (phase 1), about which the TK would be 40 billion by Russia in the form of State loans.
BAEC, will implement the project under the Ministry of science and technology.
The Ministry official said the Government appointed the Russian consulting firm, the feasibility study design and construction of the nuclear power plant.
The BAEC plans 1, 000mw to produce electricity by June 2017 in the first phase and another 1, 000MW by 2022 in the second phase.
60 Years with an option be to extend the term of Office of the plant for another 20 years. A memorandum of understanding and the establishment of a framework agreement signed Bangladesh and Russia in November 2011.
Later, Bangladesh signed a $500 to finance million credit deal with Russia in January, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Moscow, the preparation of the nuclear power plant construction.
Russian State Commission of Atomic Energy (Rosatom) build, operate and provide fuel to the facility and take their waste back to Russia regularly. The total cost of the proposed plant was estimated between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.
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