Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant continues to progress towards starting up, with the turbine installation completed at unit 1. 

The hydraulic tests to check the primary circuit systems and equipment at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's first unit have been successfully completed, paving the way for hot functional tests to begin. 

The first unit at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh has had its reactor assembly completed.

The construction project for Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant has hit a fresh landmark with dummy fuel assemblies being loaded into unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant.

China Isotope & Radiation Corporation has won a contract to construct a gamma irradiation facility at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture. 

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country is keen to build two more units at the Rooppur nuclear power plant, which is currently under construction.

The installation of the inner and outer parts of the steel structures of the 215-tonne passive heat removal system was completed in two days on Rooppur 2 in Bangladesh, Rosatom says. 

The second unit at Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant has had concreting completed on its outer containment shell, in a process which took 122 days.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Russian President Vladimir Putin and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi have taken part in a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first batch of nuclear fuel at the Rooppur nuclear power plant.