El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant is the first

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planned for Egypt and will be located at El Dabaa,

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, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of

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. The plant will have four

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reactors, making Egypt the only country in the region to have a

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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. In December 2017 preliminary contracts for the construction of four

units were signed in the presence of Egyptian President

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and Russian President

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will build the plant, and supply Russian nuclear fuel for its entire life cycle. 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. The permit for unit 1 was issued by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) in June 2022. First safety-related concrete was poured in July 2022. In October 2022, ENRRA gave construction approval for unit 2, whose construction started on 19 November. In 2022,

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was contracted to construct 82 ancillary buildings and structures.

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was sub-contracted to build the turbine buildings and related structures for about $1.2 billion. In 2025 welding lasted for 20 days was completed for the upper half of the VVER-1200 reactor vessel for El Dabaa plant, new materials and technologies will help to increase the service life to 100 years.

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%.

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