Russian nuclear security company Eleron will develop physical security system of Rooppur nuclear power plant at a cost of Tk 24 billion, or US$282 million.
Eleron inked an agreement recently with the Bangladesh Army and the Nuclear Security and Physical Protection Cell, or NSPPC, to develop the security system.
The deal was signed through video conferencing to avoid gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian firm will provide technical and technological support, including necessary documentation to the Army in accordance with international standards.
Land acquisition, development of land, the procurement of technical equipment, and construction for the physical protection system will also include in the physical security system.
The security system will have to be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, before the arrival of nuclear fuel from Russia and one year ahead of the commissioning of 1200-MW Rooppur-1 scheduled now for 2023.
The system will have to be built in such a way that it can ensure security system of the plant at Ishwardi in northern Bangladesh for at least a century.
It must have to be well in place until the decommissioning of the nuclear power plant projection, he said.
