Convoy carrying uranium for Rooppur plant leaves Gazipur

The first batch of fresh uranium, the nuclear fuel of the first unit of Rooppur nuclear power plant, is being transferred from Dhaka to the project area in Pabna.

The convoy carrying uranium left the Gazipur area around 7:00 am on Friday (September 29).

Sources said the consignment of uranium will arrive at the Rooppur power project through Bonpara of Natore crossing the Bangabandhu Bridge.

Earlier, the first shipment of uranium arrived in Dhaka from Russia on Thursday afternoon through a special air cargo.

Director general of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Aleksey Likhachev will hand over the fuel officially to the project authority in Rooppur project on 5 October.