El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant
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| El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| Official name | محطة الضبعة للطاقة النووية |
| Country | Egypt |
| Location | El Dabaa, North Coast |
| Coordinates | 31°2′39″N 28°29′52″E / 31.04417°N 28.49778°E |
| Status | Under construction |
| Construction began | July 20, 2022 |
| Commission date | 2028 (expected)[1][2] |
| Construction cost | US$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 |
El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (Egyptian Arabic: محطة الضبعة للطاقة النووية) is an under construction nuclear power plant in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of Cairo. It is the first nuclear power plant in Egypt.[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]
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]
In 2025 welding lasting 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.[14]
