Md Shafiqul Islam

As Bangladesh’s first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant nears completion at Rooppur, policymakers are already discussing whether to deploy Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) or add two more large reactors to the energy portfolio.

NUCINT bridges physical, cyber, and human dimensions of security.

To ensure Rooppur becomes a success story rather than a cautionary tale, reforms across government, regulatory, operational and policy levels are essential, not optional.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have already created a global energy insecurity.

In a callback to its trigger-happy Soviet days, Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, blocking all avenues of dialogue and

Following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima, nuclear power’s share in global electricity-generation saw a staggering decline from 13 percent to 10 percent.

Since the very inception of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project, the corresponding unit cost of generating electricity—per kilowatt-hour (kWh)—has been a subject of much speculation.

After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman