29.03.2016
February 28, 2016, Dhaka – АSE Group of Companies, which is in the management circle of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, held the Children and the Atom event for Bengali pupils which included a children drawing contest with a theme “What my country would be like with an unlimited energy source” and presentation of The Nuclear ABC, a children’s book on the atomic energy. The Children and the Atom event took part at the Nuclear Industry Information Center in the city of Dhaka as a part of the Independence Day of Bangladesh commemoration. Makhmudul Khasan, acting Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Mohammad Shawkat Akbar, Director of Rooppur NPP Project, Abul Basher Md. Zahurul Islam, director of Nuclear Industry Information Center in the city of Dhaka, Philipp Kosov, Rosatom representative in Bangladesh, Sergey Sadovnikov, ASE representative in Bangladesh, and other representatives of government entities and companies involved in the project of construction of Rooppur NPP, the first nuclear plant in Bangladesh, took part in the event. “Rosatom has the expertise and experience necessary to help Bangladesh with its challenging tasks to implement national programme of NPP construction and development of high-tech industry intended to promote social and economic growth in this country. We understand that the future of the atomic industry is in hands of the students of today, and that the generation which is now sitting at school desks may in the future want to study in order to obtain a degree to be able to operate an NPP or even construct nuclear power plants. It therefore gives me great pleasure to announce the opening of the Children and the Atom event”, said Maksim V. Elchishchev, Vice-president of ASE Group of Companies for project in Bangladesh, in his welcome address.
