DHAKA, Bangladesh—Bangladesh on Thursday received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow. Once finished, the plant is expected to boost Bangladesh’s national electrical grid and help the South Asian nation’s growing economy.
Once Rooppur starts production, Bangladesh will join more than 30 countries that run nuclear power reactors. “Together with you, we are building not just a nuclear power plant, but the entire atomic industry,” Putin said. Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the UN nuclear watchdog—the International Atomic Energy Agency—also joined by video conference, the report said.
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