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| Egypt, Russia sign Dabaa nuclear plant deal | |
| 2015-11-20 | |
| [AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi oversaw the signing of the first Egyptian nuclear plant deal between Egypt and Russia on Thursday. El-Sisi said that the new power plant will consist of "four third-generation reactors," describing them as the most up-to-date reactors that have been innovated. El-Sisi also said that the project is "peaceful" and aims to produce electricity. Sergey Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's state-owned nuclear firm Rosatomalong, along with a Russian delegation, signed the Dabaa nuclear plant deal with the Egyptian government in Cairo's Ittihadeya palace. First nuclear plant "The Dabaa nuclear plant will be the largest Russian-Egyptian project since the Aswan dam," Kiriyenko told the media on Thursday referring to the High dam built in the 60s. "It will mark a truly new chapter in the history of our bilateral relations." "The plant will make Egypt the regional leader in the field of nuclear technologies and the only country in the region that will have a generation 3+ plant," he added. The plant, expected to be constructed within 12 years, will consist of four nuclear power units, 1,200 megawatt (MW) each. In a televised speech following the signature of the deal, the Egyptian president said that the cost of the station would be covered by a loan that will last for 35 years through the period of the production of electricity from the Dabaa station. The Egyptian president also made clear that Egypt is committed to the international conventions prohibiting proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear plants. El-Sisi stressed that the project is 'for peaceful purposes' and highlighted that Egypt has always had the "dream of a peaceful nuclear programme." "This project marks the first step towards our future plans that will entitle us to cooperate more in the nuclear industry with other countries," El-Sisi said. All countries in the Middle East, excluding Israel, are parties to the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Egypt put forth the idea for a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the Middle East in 1990 and has frequently since then called for nuclear disarmament and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. The plant will be located at an existing nuclear site in Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast, west of Alexandria. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Given the "inshala"maintenance,what's the estimate to the accident. Mr. Wife told terrifying stories of what he saw back in the mid-1980s in the factories of his Egyptian suppliers... and almost was arrested when he thought to take pictures of soldiers with guns and sandles both held together by duct tape. I'd feel comfortable betting on a major accident within six months of starting up the thing, Redneck Jim. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-20 18:54 |
| #2 Given the "inshala"maintenance,what's the estimate to the accident. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-11-20 16:51 |
| #1 Marvelous. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-20 04:09 |