Rooppur NPP. The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority, a local nuclear watchdog, issued a fuel handling, storage and transportation license to the Rooppur NPP operator, the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. “The delivery of nuclear fuel to a nuclear power plant is a technology-intensive and multi-level process that has to meet all the international safety standards. The next stage of this process is a factory acceptance inspection in Novosibirsk. The fuel won’t be shipped and delivered to the Rooppur NPP until after all the necessary tests and inspection procedures are passed,” says Alexey Deriy, ASE Vice President and Director of the Rooppur construction project. Located 160 km away from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, the country’s first nuclear power plant Rooppur will have two Russian-designed VVER-1200 reactors with a total capacity of 2,400 MW.