El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant

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El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant
El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant
Official nameمحطة الضبعة للطاقة النووية
CountryEgypt
Location El Dabaa, North Coast
Coordinates 31°2′39″N28°29′52″E / 31.04417°N 28.49778°E / 31.04417; 28.49778
StatusUnder construction
Construction beganJuly 20, 2022 (2022-07-20)
Commission date 2026;2 years' time (2026) (expected) [1] [2]
Construction costUS$28.75 billion [3]
Owner Nuclear Power Plants Authority
Nuclear power station
Reactor type VVER-1200
Reactor supplier Rosatom
Cooling source Mediterranean Sea
Power generation
Units under const.4 × 1,200 MW [4]
Nameplate capacity 4,800 MW
External links
Website nppa.gov.eg
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El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant is the first nuclear power plant planned for Egypt and will be located at El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of Cairo. [5] [6] The plant will have four VVER-1200 reactors, making Egypt the only country in the region to have a Generation III+ reactor. [7] [8]

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History

On November 19, 2015 Egypt and Russia signed an initial agreement, under which Russia will build and finance Egypt’s first nuclear power plant. [7] In December 2017 preliminary contracts for the construction of four VVER-1200 units were signed in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. [8] Rosatom will build the plant, and supply Russian nuclear fuel for its entire life cycle. [9]

The Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) submitted applications for construction permits for units 1 and 2 in June 2021, and applications for units 3 and 4 in December 2021. [9] The permit for unit 1 was issued by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) in June 2022. [9] First safety-related concrete was poured in July 2022. [10] In October 2022, ENRRA gave construction approval for unit 2, [11] whose construction started on 19 November. [12]

In 2022, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power was contracted to construct 82 ancillary buildings and structures. Doosan Enerbility was sub-contracted to build the turbine buildings and related structures for about $1.2 billion. [13]

Finance

The project will cost US$28.75 billion of which Russia will finance 85% as a state loan of US$25 billion and Egypt will provide the remaining 15% in the form of installments. The Russian loan has a repayment period of 22 years, with an annual interest rate of 3%. [1] [14]

Reactor data

UnitTypeNet CapacityGross CapacityConstruction startFirst CriticalityFirst Grid ConnectionCommercial OperationNotes
El Dabaa 1 VVER-1200/529 1100 MW1200 MW2022-07-20 [15]
El Dabaa 2 VVER-1200/529 1100 MW1200 MW2022-11-19 [16]
El Dabaa 3 VVER-1200/529 1100 MW1200 MW2023-05-03 [17]
El Dabaa 4 VVER-1200/529 1100 MW1200 MW2024-01-23 [18]

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