DHAKA -- The test run of Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant will begin soon, a visiting Russian official has said.

General Director of Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev, who visited Bangladesh on Wednesday, shared the updates on the project when he met with Bangladeshi interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in the capital Dhaka.

"The dry run of the project is going on while the test run will commence soon," he said.

Bangladesh's maiden nuclear plant scheme was being implemented by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission under the country's Science and Technology Ministry, with financial and technological support by Russia through its state-owned nuclear giant Rosatom.

A total of 262 acres of land have been acquired in the country's Pabna district, 216 km west of Dhaka, to set up two units of the plant with a capacity of 2,400 MW.