Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- AEM-Technology" (part of Rosatom machine-building division - JSC "Atomenergomash") announced the shipment of the first key elements of the nuclear island of the first Rooppur NPP unit, the first nuclear power plant in Bangladesh's history. A VVER-1200 reactor and a steam generator, manufactured at the "Atommash" plant in Volgodonsk, the largest nuclear engineering production site in Russia, were shipped to the NPP construction site. The Rooppur NPP consists of two units with a capacity of 1200 MW each and will be put into operation according to the following schedule: the first unit will start working in 2023, and the second one in 2024.

General Director of JSC "Atomenergomash" Andrei Nikipelov said: "Manufacturing equi...