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Bangladesh to build first nuke plant with Russia's assistance
A nuclear power plant will be built in Bangladesh with the help of Russia.
Bangladesh's junior Science and Technology Minister Yeafesh Osman says he and Russia's Rosatom State Corporation Director-General Sergei Kiriyenko signed the agreement on Wednesday for the nation's first such plant at Rooppur in Pabna district, 75 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.
Bangladesh now relies on decades-old gas-fired power plants and suffers a daily shortfall of about 2,000 megawatts that is blamed for hampering industrial production and economic growth.