Bangladesh will press ahead with its nuclear power programme and has already signed a framework agreement with Russia to set up a 1,000 megawatt (MW) nuclear plant, the country's prime minister said on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the plants which were damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan were old and security systems had improved significantly since.
She said that after completing the final agreement, a nuclear power plant at Ruppur would start operating by 2017. "We have a plan to construct another 1000 MW nuclear based power plant at Ruppur by 2018," she said. Hasina had earlier opened up a furnace oil-based quick rental power plant that has been set up by leading Bangladesh company Summit Power.
Summit Power, along with multilateral lending agencies, will invest $1 billion to produce 1,450 megawatts of electricity by 2013, Muhammad Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Group, said. "We are happy to be able to complete a 102 MW power plant within the stipulated time frame," he told Reuters on Sunday.
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