Nuclear Power Plant
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.
He stressed that the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority is technically and scientifically responsible for operating the Dabaa nuclear reactor in cooperation with the Russian company Rosatom.
The new amendments assign the authority to desalinate water by using nuclear power, while also acknowledging the authority as the sole owner and operator of all nuclear power plants across Egypt.
During the meeting, the two sides underscored mutual commitment to further strengthening bilateral relations in various fields. They also valued the close bilateral relations and historical friendship between the Egyptian and Russian peoples.
It equally inaugurated at the Russian Cultural Center a photo exhibition portraying different nuclear power industries such as nuclear fuel and floating reactors.
Iran has launched a plan to boost uranium enrichment capacity with new centrifuges, raising the pressure on European diplomats to rescue the nuclear deal.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will attend the inauguration of the first Egyptian Nuclear Power plant (NPP) by the end of this year.
Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he wished to start talks in September over giant projects between both countries.
A comprehensive contract to construct Egypt’s first nuclear power plant in al-Dabaa, in cooperation with Russian state corporation “Rosatom,” is ready to be signed.
Contracts for Russian construction of nuclear power plants in Egypt are being prepared and are expected to be signed soon.
Leningrad Nuclear Russian Power Plant received a delegation of 15 members from the Egyptian Parliament, Sunday.
The contracts for Egypt's first nuclear power plant with Russia are expected to be signed this month for work to begin on the project’s first phase.
