Since 2015, when the governments of Egypt and Russia forged a collaboration to build the nation’s first nuclear power plant in El Dabaa, Marsa Matrouh, 320 kilometres northwest of Cairo, nuclear energy has been a part of Egypt’s development initiatives.
Now that El Dabaa 2’s licence has been authorised by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA), work will soon start on building Egypt’s second nuclear reactor. On November 19, Egypt’s Nuclear Energy Day, the licence will be formally issued following rigorous research by the ENRRA.
The second reactor is planned to bring Egypt closer to generating 9% of its electricity by nuclear energy after the building of the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, which is built and supplied by Russia’s Rosatom. The nuclear power plant is set to generate 4,800 megawatts by 2030.
