President Sisi, Russian counterpart to participate in laying the foundation of the fourth power unit at Egypt’s Dabaa NPP

CAIRO – 22 January 2024: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will participate via video conference on Tuesday in a ceremony of pouring the first concrete into the foundation of the fourth power unit at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, announced the Kremlin on Monday.

The management and operation of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant in Dabaa City on the Mediterranean Sea will be completely transferred to the Egyptian side, Egyptian-Russian nuclear program coordinator Tariq Hussein told RT in early September 2023.

In October 2022, an official source at the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy confirmed that after operating the Dabaa nuclear power plant with a capacity of 4,800 megawatts, the volume of carbon dioxide emissions reduction will reach 14 million tons annually, which is equivalent to removing 3 million cars from the roads.

Under the auspices of President Sisi, Egypt’s government celebrated, for the first time, the Egyptian nuclear energy day on Monday, November 22, 2021.

 In his speech, Prime Minister Moustafa Mabdouli said that Egypt, for many decades, paid more attention to nuclear energy as it is one of the pillars and strategic options to enhance development plans.