The Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA) has granted the Russian state-owned nuclear group Rosatom permission to establish the second unit at the 4,800 MW El Dabaa nuclear plant (4 x 1,200 MW), located in the city of El Dabaa in the Matrouh governorate, about 300 km northwest of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast.The construction licence for the second reactor is expected to be issued later in November 2022.
The supervisory body received a request to obtain a construction permit for the first and second units on 13 January 2019. Over the course of two years, the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA), an affiliate of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy in charge of establishing, operating and managing nuclear power plants in the country, completed its procedures by submitting a preliminary safety analysis report for the first and second units, starting from January 2021 until the end of June 2021.
Rosatom is building the El Dabaa nuclear plant under a bilateral agreement signed between Russia and Egypt in November 2015. The project, which is expected to be fully operational by 2030, will consists of four VVER-1200 units with a capacity of 1,200 MW. The first reactor entered construction in July 2022. South Africa is currently the only African nation with commercial nuclear power. Indeed, Eskom owns and operates two reactors at Koeberg with a total capacity of 1.9 GW.
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