11 March 2021
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The importance of Egypt s first nuclear power plant is comparable to that of the Aswan High Dam, Russia’s Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko said this week. Built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970, the world s biggest embankment dam was designed by the Moscow-based Hydroproject Institute. Borisenko made the comparison during a visit to the El Dabaa plant s construction site, together with the chairman of Egypt’s Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA), Amged El-Wakeel.
Centre L-R: NPPA Chairman Amged El-Wakeel and Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko (Image: Rosatom)
Four Russian-designed VVER-1200 pressurised water reactors are planned for El Dabaa, which is on the Mediterranean coast, 170km west of Alexandria and Zafraana on the Gulf of Suez. Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is developing the plant, which will be owned and operated by the NPPA. With a nameplate capacity of 4.8 GWe, the plant is expected to accoun
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The logo of Russian state nuclear company Rosatom is pictured at the World Nuclear Exhibition 2014, the trade fair event for the global nuclear energy sector, in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Cairo - Mohammed Abdo Hassanein
A nuclear plant is expected to see “a promising start” by the end of 2021, Russian officials said, after visiting the project’s site on the Mediterranean coast.
Russian state-owned Rosatom, which specializes in nuclear energy, is working to inaugurate the first nuclear power plant in Egypt, in the city of El-Dabaa (130 km northwest of Cairo).
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