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21 July 2022
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Russia’s Rosatom Starts Building Egypt’s First Nuclear Reactor—Anyways 3
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, 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 (…)