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El Dabaa NPP promotes Egypt’s climate action, clean energy use
El Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP) plays a key role to support Egypt’s climate action and represents low-carbon and environmentally safe source of electric power.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi highlighted that the power plant will help reduce dependence on fossil fuel as recommended during the 28th United Nations Climate Chance Conference (COP28).
During a ceremony marking the foundation-laying ceremony at the fourth power unit of El Dabaa nuclear power plant, President Sisi said the crisis in global energy supplies that the world is witnessing today underscores the significance of the strategic decisions taken by the Egyptian State to revive the Egyptian peaceful nuclear program for the production of electrical energy.
This shall contribute to providing safe, cheap, and long-term energy supplies, reducing dependence on fossil fuels and avoiding fluctuations in their prices, he expounded.
President Sisi highlighted “introducing nuclear power into the energy mix that Egypt relies on to produce electricity is crucial to meeting the growing demands for electrical energy so as to fulfill the needs of economic and social development plans and contribute to boosting reliance on new and renewable energy, which achieves environmental sustainability and addresses climate change.”
“Unlike coal and gas power plants, the nuclear power plant will not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which will certainly have a beneficial effect on the environment and human health,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the ceremony.
El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt is being built in full compliance with environmental standards, Putting said, pointing out that nuclear corporation Rosatom – the recognized leader in the nuclear sphere – is using the most advanced engineering solutions, cost-effective and reliable technologies in the plant’s construction.
Egyptian President Sisi noted that the construction of El Dabaa is ahead of schedule, which “reflects the scale of efforts that both sides are making to implement the project.”
Sisi highlighted that this historic event of establishing El Dabaa nuclear power plant is “a long-standing dream of the Egyptian people”, adding that the project will help Egypt “move forward along the path of development and industrial growth.”
For his part, Alexey Likhachev, the Director General of ROSATOM, said this historic event signifies the beginning of the main stage of the power unit construction, thus making the four-unit El Dabaa nuclear power plant the largest nuclear construction project on the African continent.
Likhachev pointed out “We commemorate today a landmark event in the history of Egypt’s nuclear energy and Russian-Egyptian relations. The first concreting of the Power unit 4 foundation slab launches the largest bilateral cooperation project since the construction of the Aswan Dam, namely construction of the first Egyptian nuclear power plant. Now all four power units of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant are under construction. This means that our Egypt site is becoming one of the two largest nuclear construction projects in the world.”
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 kilometers northwest of Cairo. This is Rosatom’s first major project in Africa.
By 2028, Rosatom 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.
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