The Minister of Industry and Trade, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said that state company Rosatom is building the Ed-Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt ahead of schedule. It has been reported TASS.
“We are still ahead of schedule,” Manturov said.
On February 11, the Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko declarationThe construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, Al Dabaa, is on schedule and even ahead of schedule.
Prior to that, Alexander Korchagin, Senior Vice President of the Engineering Department of the Russian state company JSC Atomstroyexport (JSC ASE). reportedOn November 19, 2022, Rosatom Corporation began construction of the Ed-Dabaa nuclear power plant in northern Egypt.
At the end of June 2022, the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) announced that it had licensed Rosatom to build the first power unit of the Al Dabaa nuclear power plant.
An agreement on the construction of a nuclear power plant between the Egyptian and Russian governments was signed in Cairo in November 2015.