Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region (Russia). Construction of the world’s most powerful fast-neutron nuclear reactor started in Russia. The research multipurpose reactor called MBIR will be used for nuclear power development projects. The first concrete of the reactor was filled on Friday,…
Russia’s State corporation- Rosatom with the support of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) distributed a popular science book titled “Nuclear power: Q&A” among 30 schools in the town of Pabna, district town of…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will now stage countrywide demonstrations on Sunday instead of Saturday, in protest against the price hike of power and gas. The programme was rescheduled a day after party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance is likely to announce a two-day demonstration programme soon to protest the fresh hike in power and gas tariffs. The decision was taken at a meeting of the top leaders of the alliance held at BNP…
Mentioning that export growth has reduced by 11.96 percent in the first two months of the current fiscal year, the Exporters Association of Bangladesh (EAB) on Saturday observed that the recent increase in gas and electricity prices will again put…
Terming illogical and unacceptable the government’s decision to raise the prices of gas and power, BNP on Saturday demanded its immediate annulment. The party also urged the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to revise the power tariff in accordance with…
Russia’s State Nuclear Corporation- Rosatom and Laos are in negotiation for setting up first nuclear power plant in the territory of Laos. Dr. Sinava Souphanouvong, Vice Minister of Energy and mines of Laos disclosed the information during an intervie to…
Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC), a subsidiary of state nuclear power corporation of Russia- Rosatom has completed tests of fuel assemblies for the BN-800 fast neutron reactor in their at their MOX (Mixed Oxide) fuel fabrication plan. The BN-800 reactor…
Different political parties and organisations have started staging demonstration and issuing statements against the increase of gas and electricity prices and called for withdrawing the same. The Bnp, the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, the Islami Oikya Jote, Nezame Islam Party, Gono…
The government has increased power prices by 2.97 percent and gas prices by 26.29 percent. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman AR Khan announced the hikes at a press conference at the commission’s office at Karwan Bazar on Thursday. The new…
The Cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the Bangladesh Petrolium Corporation Act, 2015 proposed by the Ministry of Energy Power and Mineral Resources. Mosharraf Hossain said the BPC was running under the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation…
The musical show “Ask Rutherford” was successfully performed in the Hungarian town Paks as part of the 7th international children’s art project “Nuclear Kids 2015″. 70 children from Belarus, Hungary, Vietnam, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the Czech Republic participated in…
The permanent representatives of foreign countries to international organizations in Vienna visited Russia’s Rostov region in the framework of cooperation in the area of use of atomic energy in peaceful purposes and for acquaintance with modern Russian technologies for NPP…
The Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC) has blacklisted and summoned 11 industries, commercial entities located at Shampur and Kajla areas and some individuals to appear before DPDC special task force on Monday, according sources in the DPDC. The business…
Santiago – The Indian subcontinent power rental market was valued at over $100 million in 2014 according to a research report by Verify Markets. The market in India was the largest within the Indian Subcontinent by far followed by Pakistan…
Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom hosted a workshop on its thermal capabilities, ‘Modern Russian Technologies for Thermal Power Engineering in Africa’ during POWER-GEN Africa conference and exhibition held in Cape Town from July 15-17, 2015. The workshop discussed prospects of…
China formally committed to halting the rise in its greenhouse gas emissions within the next 15 years on Tuesday, in a much anticipated strategy to help build a UN climate deal in 2015. The world’s top greenhouse gas emitter said…
Russia will continue its participation for next 10 years in international collaboration on research and development for Generation IV nuclear energy systems. A Framework Agreement to this effect was signed between Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy…
Bangladesh teenager Mustafizur Rahman became only the second player in One Day International history to take five wickets in each of his first two matches as he inspired his country to a shock series win against India. India slumped to…
A group of Bangladeshi experts from Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) visited one of the latest nuclear power plants- Leningrad NPP-II in Russia. Earlier they visited Novovoronezh NPP-II and machine building plant ZIO-Podolsk. The visit was arranged under the scientific…
BNP yesterday called upon the government to give up its plan to install the coal-based power plant at Rampal at the fringes of the Sundarbans. Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon, international affairs secretary of the party, made the call at a press…
The portfolio of Russia’s state nuclear power corporation- ROSATOM’s foreign contracts reached $101.4 billion last year. Head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko informed the Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, May 6, 2015. Kiriyenko said, “We…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘Nuclear Power Plant Bill, 2015’ subject to the vetting of the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, aiming to construct the country’s first Nuclear Power Plant at Rooppur in Pabna. The…
Russia’s State Nuclear Power Corporation- ROSATOM plans to open a regional centre in China by the middle of the current year. The China office will be set with an objective to strengthen Rosatom’s position in the Chinese market and will…
Russia and Argentina signed a Memorandum Understanding establishing a Framework for Cooperation between the countries in the field of construction of a nuclear power unit in Argentina. Russia’s latest VVER technology will be used in the unit with installed capacity…
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar On many mornings, especially in winter, a pall of smoke hangs over the villages of Palwal district in Haryana, a landscape of tractors, brick kilns and new colleges. It’s the haze of thousands of hearth fires burning…
Twenty more Bangladeshi students will be awarded scholarships this year to study nuclear energy at under graduate and post-graduate levels in different academic facilities in Russia, which are members of Rosatom’s consortium of core higher educational institutions. Scholarship will be…
Russia is preferred in the global market for its willingness to share knowledge in nuclear power technology, cheaper price and safety, says World Nuclear Association (WNA) in one of its research report, published recently. The report further says that Russia…
Dhaka: Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation- Rosatom with the support of Ministry of Science and Technology has presented popular science book titled “Nuclear Energy: Questions and Answers” to various schools located at Ishwardi area where country’s first nuclear power plant…
An inter-governmental agreement has been signed between Jordan and Russia last week in Jordanian capital Amman. The agreement envisages Russian cooperation in construction and operation of a nuclear power plant having two VVER units, each of 1000Mw capacity in the…