The Egyptian cabinet Friday denied reports that work on the nuclear power station in Dabaa in northwestern Egypt had been suspended.
The Dabaa project, implemented in co-operation with Russia, is going ahead without problem, the cabinet said.
“This is one of the most important projects to generate electricity from nuclear energy the latest technologies and to the highest safety levels,” the Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Centre said.
Dabaa will have four nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 4,800 megawatts, the centre added.
All licensing procedures have been finalised by the Nuclear Power Plants Authority, the centre said.
Construction permits for the first and second units of the plant were already obtained to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the nuclear facilities in the future.
The manufacture of equipment for Dabaa had already started in Russia, as witnessed by Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shakir during a visit to the factory.
The Nuclear Power Plants Authority, the centre added, had already obtained approval for the site of the plant from the Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority in March 2019.
The permission, it said, is an acknowledgment that the site and its specifications comply with Egyptian requirements and those of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
