RUSSIA/EGYPT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DEAL FACES TECHNICAL AND SECURITY CHALLENGES BUT HAS POLITICAL FAIR WIND
January 1st, 2016
WHILE Russia has signed an agreement deal to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt, a move that would give the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region its only NPP with third generation plus technology, significant obstacles remain before operations could be launched. The Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom last November signed an agreement with the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority for the collaboration in the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant. It would be equipped with four NPP units with capacity of 1,200MW each on ...
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