Dhaka, April 28 -- Bangladesh has entered a new phase of its nuclear energy journey as fuel loading began at Unit 1 of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), marking a key step toward commissioning the country's first nuclear power facility.

The plant is being built under the general contractor and designer Engineering Division of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology and Science and Technology Fakir Mahbub Anam gave symbolic permission to load nuclear fuel into the first power unit of the Rooppur NPP on Tuesday, with Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev also present at the ceremony, said a Rosatom press release.

The fuel loading phase is part of the key commissioning stage o...