Egypt

Number of Reactors

(as of November 2022)

WNISR Essential News – 21 July 2022 WNISR Russia’s Rosatom Starts Building Egypt’s First Nuclear Reactor—Anyways 3 WNISR, 20 July 2022 Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant has officially started on 20 July 2022 at El-Dabaa city, governorate of Matrouh. The VVER-1200 reactor of Russian design is the first of four such units to be built by Rosatom at the El-Dabaa site, located on the north-west coast of Egypt, by the Mediterranean Sea. Egypt’s nuclear ambitions stem back to the mid-1950s, and the Dabaa site was first selected to host a nuclear facility in the early 1980s. The latest attempts to (...)