Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom has been granted a construction license by the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority for the first unit of the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant project in El Dabaa city on the Mediterranean coast, 184 miles northwest of Cairo.
The country's first nuclear power plant, it is expected to cost approximately $30 billion with capacity of 4.8 GW, enabling Egypt to diversify its power sources and improve reliability of the national power supply system, says the agency.