Inshas () is a village located in

Bilbeis Bilbeis ( ; Bohairic ' is an ancient fortress city on the eastern edge of the southern Nile Delta in Egypt, the site of the ancient city and former bishopric of Phelbes and a Latin Catholic titular see. The city is small in size but dens ...

Sharqia Governorate Sharqia (, , ; ) is the third most populous of the 27 governorates of Egypt. Located in the northern part of the country, its capital is the city of Zagazig. Overview Bilbeis is the former capital of Sharqia. A section of the governorate once ...

, 60 kilometers east of

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. It holds the first experimental nuclear reactor to be operated in Egypt

ETRR-1 ETRR-1 or ET-RR-1 (''Experimental Training Research Reactor Number one'', and sometimes called ''Egypt Test and Research Reactor Number one''), is the first nuclear reactor in Egypt supplied by the USSR in 1958. The reactor is owned and operated ...

as well as the second experimental reactor

ETRR-2 ETRR-2 or ET-RR-2 (''Experimental Training Research Reactor Number two''), (''Egypt Test and Research Reactor Number two'') or (''Multi-Purpose Reactor'') is the second nuclear reactor in Egypt supplied by the Argentine company Investigacion Apl ...

, the ''Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority Experimental Farm'', unauthorized

IAEA The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. It was established in 1957 ...

. Following the creation of the

Arab League The Arab League (, ' ), officially the League of Arab States (, '), is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt, Kingdom of Iraq, ...

in March 1945, Inshas held the first Arab League Summit in May 1946.

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