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Egypt And Russia Sign Agreements In Bid To Speed Up El Dabaa Nuclear Project

By David Dalton
11 July 2025

Countries aim to ‘accelerate construction timelines and streamline coordination’

Egypt And Russia Sign Agreements In Bid To Speed Up El Dabaa Nuclear Project
Russia is supplying four Generation III+ VVER-1200 pressurised water reactors for El Dabaa, with the first unit expected to be online in 2026 and all four units operational in 2030. Courtesy Rosatom.
Egypt and Russia have signed a supplementary protocol to their 2015 nuclear cooperation agreement, a move that is set to fast-track the construction and operation of Egypt’s first nuclear commercial nuclear power station at El Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast.

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