El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Official name | محطة الضبعة للطاقة النووية |
Country | Egypt |
Location | El Dabaa, North Coast |
Coordinates | 31°2′39″N 28°29′52″E / 31.04417°N 28.49778°E |
Status | Under construction |
Construction began | July 20, 2022 |
Commission date | 2026[1][2] | (expected)
Construction cost | US$28.75 billion[3] |
Owner(s) | Nuclear Power Plants Authority |
Nuclear power station | |
Reactor type | VVER-1200 |
Reactor supplier | Rosatom |
Cooling source | Mediterranean Sea |
Power generation | |
Units planned | 1 × 1,200 MW |
Units under const. | 3 × 1,200 MW[4] |
Nameplate capacity | 4,800 MW |
External links | |
Website | nppa.gov.eg |
El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant is the first nuclear power plant planned for Egypt and will be located at El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of Cairo.[5][6] The plant will have four VVER-1200 reactors, making Egypt the only country in the region to have a Generation III+ reactor.[7][8]
On November 19, 2015 Egypt and Russia signed an initial agreement, under which Russia will build and finance Egypt’s first nuclear power plant.[7] In December 2017 preliminary contracts for the construction of four VVER-1200 units were signed in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.[8] Rosatom will build the plant, and supply Russian nuclear fuel for its entire life cycle.[9]
The Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) submitted applications for construction permits for units 1 and 2 in June 2021, and applications for units 3 and 4 in December 2021.[9] The permit for unit 1 was issued by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) in June 2022.[9] First safety-related concrete was poured in July 2022.[10] In October 2022, ENRRA gave construction approval for unit 2,[11] whose construction started on 19 November.[12]
In 2022, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power was contracted to construct 82 ancillary buildings and structures. Doosan Enerbility was sub-contracted to build the turbine buildings and related structures for about $1.2 billion.[13]
The project will cost US$28.75 billion of which Russia will finance 85% as a state loan of US$25 billion and Egypt will provide the remaining 15% in the form of installments. The Russian loan has a repayment period of 22 years, with an annual interest rate of 3%.[1][14]
Unit | Type | Net Capacity | Gross Capacity | Construction start | First Criticality | First Grid Connection | Commercial Operation | Notes |
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El Dabaa 1 | VVER-1200/529 | 1100 MW | 1200 MW | 2022-07-20 | [15] | |||
El Dabaa 2 | VVER-1200/529 | 1100 MW | 1200 MW | 2022-11-19 | [16] | |||
El Dabaa 3 | VVER-1200/529 | 1100 MW | 1200 MW | 2023-05-03[17] | ||||
El Dabaa 4 | VVER-1200/529 | 1100 MW | 1200 MW | 2024-01-23[18] |