{"id":29062,"date":"2024-12-29T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29062"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:43:25","slug":"rooppur-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rooppur-nuclear-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a nuclear power plant under construction in Iswardi, Pabna District, Rajshahi Division, <strong>Bangladesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will be <strong>Bangladesh\u2019s first source of nuclear power.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) is the owner<\/strong> of the Rooppur nuclear plant.<\/li>\n<li>It features <strong>two VVER-1200 reactors<\/strong>, created by <strong>Russian<\/strong> company Rosatom.<\/li>\n<li>Construction of both water-cooled reactors began in November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Once completed, the two reactors at the Rooppur site, some 160 kilometres northwest of the capital, Dhaka, <strong>will generate 2400 megawatts<\/strong> of power, providing approximately 9 percent of Bangladesh&#8217;s total electricity needs.<\/li>\n<li>The total estimated cost of the Rooppur nuclear plant is $12.65 billion US dollars.<\/li>\n<li>The construction is <strong>largely funded by a loan from Russia<\/strong>, to be paid back over 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Nuclear Energy?<\/h3>\n<p>Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission \u2013 when nuclei of atoms split into several parts \u2013 or fusion \u2013 when nuclei fuse together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/bangladesh-initiates-investigation-into-russia-backed-rooppur-nuclear-project\/article69018424.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bangladesh initiates investigation into Russia-backed Rooppur nuclear project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooppur Plant is a nuclear power plant under construction in Iswardi, Pabna District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}