Putin, El-Sisi to Attend a Ceremony at El-Dabaa NPP

Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will take part in the ceremony of pouring the first concrete into the foundation of the fourth power unit at the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Egypt on Tuesday via video linkup, the Kremlin press service reported.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin and El-Sisi would take part in this ceremony.
As previously reported, the pouring of the first concrete at the fourth unit of the El-Dabaa NPP will mark the end of the preparatory period and the transition to the main stage of capital construction of all units of the plant.
El-Dabaa is the first nuclear power plant in Egypt to be built by Rosatom in the Matrouh Governorate on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea about 300 kilometres northwest of Cairo. This is Rosatom’s first major project in Africa. By 2028, the state corporation will build four units of the plant with VVER-1200 reactors and will supply nuclear fuel throughout the life cycle of the NPP (60 years), as well as provide training, maintenance and repair services for 10 years after the start-up of each unit. The contract also provides for the construction of the first module of dry containerized storage of spent nuclear fuel by 2028. Egypt expects the NPP to reach full capacity by 2030