Dhaka, Aug. 9 -- The construction work of the Unit-2 of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is now in full swing. Pouring of concrete for the foundation of the turbine hall slab at the Unit-2 of RNPP was completed on 6th August. The concrete works of the foundation slab required a total amount of 3,782 tons of rebars and 23,550 cubic meters of concrete.

Earlier, the concrete works of the turbine hall foundation slab of Unit-1 of RNPP were completed on 30 January of this year. First concrete for the Unit-1 of RNPP was poured in November 2017, while that of Unit-2 was poured in July 2018.

Sergey Lastochkin, the Vice-President of the RNPP construction

project said in a press notice that this is an important stage of construction that will ...