OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2013. On the 15th of January, during an official visit of Sheikh Hasina Vazed, the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, to Russia an agreement was signed concerning the establishment of the Atomic Energy Information Center in Dhaka. For Russia the agreement was signed by Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM Sergey Kirienko.

The center is needed to educate the Bangladeshi population on principles of functioning of the nuclear industry and prospects of nuclear power development, as well as raise prestige of nuclear-related trades among young people. To remind: last November an intergovernmental agreement concerning the construction of the first nuclear power plant to the Russian design in Bangladesh was signed. The agreement provides for construction of two nuclear power units of 1,000 MW installed capacity each on Ruppur site at 200 km from Dhaka.

The Information Center will be a modern, high technology movie theater which combines a panoramic 3D view, computer graphics and animation, stereo sound, interactive consoles and personal displays. The center’s aids include basic educational programs on the nature of atomic energy as well as informative programs on astronomy and country studies.

There are already 17 such centers in operation in Russia. Since their becoming they have been visited by over 670,000 people. The main objective of the centers is to educate schoolchildren and disseminate knowledge about nuclear science and technology.

ROSATOM plans to expand the network of information centers abroad, in the countries which use Russian technologies to build nuclear industry facilities. The Bangladesh center is planned to become the third in the overseas network (after Vietnam and Turkey) and will start operating in 2013. It will be located in the country’s capital Dhaka in the building of the planetarium (Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre).