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Leaders and representatives from 32 countries at the Nuclear Energy Summit backed measures in areas such as financing, technological innovation, regulatory cooperation and workforce training to enable the expansion of nuclear capacity to tackle climate change and boost energy security.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit
Russia is supplying its Generation III+ reactor technology for the project
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Friday, 01 September 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/regulator-gives-go-ahead-for-construction-of-fourth-nuclear-plant-at-el-dabaa-8-4-2023
Moscow building four VVER-1200 reactors on Mediterranean coast
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/main-construction-phase-begins-at-russia-supplied-el-dabaa-3-nuclear-plant-5-3-2023
First concrete was poured into the foundation slab, marking the start of the main stage of construction for the second unit at Egypt’s first nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 22 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-begins-for-El-Dabaa-unit-2
The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) has issued a construction licence to the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) for unit 1 of the planned four-unit El Dabaa nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-permit-issued-for-first-Egyptian-unit
What is the significance of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station?
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 05 March 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-what-s-happening-at-europe-s-largest-nuclear-power-station-3-5-2022
A high-level Egyptian-Russian delegation last week paid a working visit to the construction site of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant. The delegation on 15 July was led by Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt Mohamed Shaker and Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachov. It followed Rosatom's announcement on 1 July that the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) of Egypt has applied to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority for a construction permit for units 1 and 2 of what will be Egypt's first nuclear power plant. Rosatom said that once the permit has been granted full-scale construction work will start.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Egyptian-Russian-officials-inspect-El-Dabaa-plant
Egypt’s Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) has handed over the licensing documentation for construction of units 1 and 2 of El Dabaa NPP to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulation Authority (ENRRA), Rosatom said on 1 July.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 06 July 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslicensing-documentation-submitted-for-egypts-el-dabaa-nuclear-plant-8869397
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 yesterday. 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 12 March 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/El-Dabaa-NPP-as-significant-as-Aswan-High-Dam-says
As policymakers grapple with the twin challenges of climate change and a post-COVID economic recovery, the benefits of nuclear power are clearer than ever, but the industry still has some way to go in addressing perceptions of its alleged drawbacks with cost, safety and radioactive waste. This was the overriding message of the three panellists in a webinar held last week by Utilities Middle East in partnership with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-barrier-to-nuclear-is-perception,-says-panel