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Rosatom to build begin second
reactor at Dabaa in November
EGYPT RUSSIAN state nuclear energy company Rosa- High Dam, which was completed in 1970.
tom could start building a second nuclear power In July, Rosatom began pouring the first
reactor at Egypt’s El Dabaa region in Novem- concrete for the first El Dabaa reactor. Con-
ber, Interfax news agency quotes the head of struction of all four NPP units, with a capacity
the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority, of 1,200MW each, is planned for completion by
Amjad Al-Wakeel, as saying. 2028-2029.
In 2017, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Egypt and Russia signed a deal to build the
el-Sissi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir facility in 2015, and Moscow is reportedly lend-
Putin signed the final agreement to build the ing Cairo $25bn for the project, covering 85% of
nuclear plant at el-Dabaa, on Egypt’s north coast. the cost.
The initial intergovernmental agreement Cairo’s strategic plan is to raise the share of
on the construction of an NPP was signed in its power generation capacity from renewable
November 2015, signalling the largest project of sources to 40% by 2030 and 42% by 2035.
Russian-Egyptian cooperation since the Aswan
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