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The ceremony of pouring concrete at the second power unit of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt took place on Novemeber 20, Alexander Korchagin, senior vice-president of Atomstroyexport engineering division of Russia’s civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom, told TASS on Saturday. The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant is the first nuclear power station in Egypt. It will be constructed in the city of El-Dabaa in the Matrouh Governorate on the Mediterranean coast, roughly 300 km northwest of Cairo. The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant will consist of 4 units with a generating capacity equivalent to 1200 MW per unit using generation III+ VVER-1200 reactors (pressurized water reactors). This is the most advanced technology to date and it has already been successfully implemented and operated in Russia and abroad, Rosatom said.
9.1.11 Metallurgy & mining sector news
Russia’s combined production of metals and metals products shrank by 2.4% on the year in October, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement on November 23. In January–October, the metals output gained 0.1%, the service said. The production of cast iron went down by 9.2% on the year to 4.22mn tonnes in October, while the output of unalloyed steel fell by 16% to 4.47mn tonnes, of alloyed steel by 0.7% to 1.27mn tonnes, of hot-rolled metals by 16.5% to 1.55mn tonnes, and of long-steel products by 6.3% to 1.40mn tonnes, while the output of primary aluminum increased by 26%. In January–October, the output of cast iron went down by 3.5% on the year to 43.05mn tonnes, of unalloyed steel by 9.6% to 46.83mn tonnes, of hot rolled metals by 10.4% to 15.32mn tonnes, and of long steel products by 2.6%, while production of alloyed steel increased by 4.6% to 13.27mn tonnes, and of primary aluminum by 16.5%.
Russia’s crude steel production slumped c12% y/y in October says the
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