World Nuclear Association (WNA) Director General Dr. Sama Bilbao Y Leon on Thursday said that the WNA has welcomed Bangladesh as the country has become the 33rd nuclear fuel user in the world.
While talking to Bangladesh Post at during the Graduation Ceremony of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) at the plant site in Ishwardi of Pabna, WNA Director General Sama Bilbao said that it is a great achievement for Bangladesh and she wholeheartedly congratulates Bangladesh on this occasion.
Bangladesh has stepped in the nuclear club through receiving the main fuel of the plant uranium and certificate of fuel delivery and model of the fuel assembly from Russia.
The first batch of fuel for operation of the much talked RNPP received at a ceremony in RNPP site.
Representative of ROSATOM handed over the Certificate and Model of Nuclear Fuel to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a function at its site as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin virtually joined it.
The model of the fuel assembly was handed over to Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman by ROSATOM Director General Alexy Likhachev at the ceremony in RNPP site, Ishwardi, Pabna.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the ceremony.