Posted on 01/23/2024 2:46:56 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Egypt on Tuesday, 23 January, to join his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in laying the foundation of El-Dabaa, Egypt's first-ever nuclear power plant (NPP).
Both Putin and Sisi will take part in an official ceremony of the final stage of pouring the concrete of the fourth reactor of Dabaa developed by the Russian state atomic energy corporation ROSATOM in Dabaa city, located in the Mediterranean Marsa Matrouh province, about 320 kilometres northwest of the capital Cairo, Egyptian news outlets reported.
The long-awaited NPP, which will operate with a 120-megawatt capacity for each of its four reactors, costs US$28.75 billion; about 85 per cent of it is financed by Russia and paid by Egypt over a 22-year loan with an annual three per cent interest rate as per a bilateral agreement signed back in 2015.
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And we can’t build any nucular power plants here.
STUPID.
bkmk
No small part of the development of nuclear electric power in Egypt is that the technology, materials, and scientific talent will be readily transferable to the creation of nuclear weapons. Within a decade, Egypt will be fully capable of building a nuclear weapon.
Do they have an excess of eggs in Egypt?
I hope they build it right next to the Pyramids.
Egypt ought to be talking to the French or the Japanese.
This is like a time-warp to the early part of my life.
My first thought was of what ancient treasures they could sink beneath a body of water, like Lake Nasser.
As you intimate, the Egyptians do not care about their ancient artifacts, unless the bring in tourists and money.
>>Within a decade, Egypt will be fully capable of building a nuclear weapon.
Nuclear weapons rely on either enriching uranium to a high percentage of U235 isotope, or on extracting a specific plutonium isotope from spent fuel.
Neither process is needed to operate an electrical power generation reactor.
Ostrich eggs, big money.
Just one fills you up until shawarma time.
Then you smoke hash and have coffee.
Mersa Matruh is, or once was, a pleasant Med seaside town with a beach of crystal like sand and beautiful turquoise water. I wonder...
... paid by Egypt over a 22-year loan with an annual three per cent interest rate ...
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Egypt is so poor they can barely afford that amount.
Great, another Chernobyl style “advanced” russian graphite pile nuclear disaster build. Just what Egypt needs. The russians are really piss poor engineers and even worse economically wasteful. A nation built around a gas station selling off natural resources.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
But will it El-Dabaa dabba do?
The accompaniments necessary for nuclear power generation — nuclear physicists, technicians, nuclear materials, and a working reactor — can be applied to nuclear weapons. Thus the estimate is that Japan’s nuclear power generating capacity and technical and industrial base give her the ability to go nuclear in six months or a year at most. With Egypt, the process would of course take longer but be no less assured of success. Indeed, any decent nuclear physics grad student these days could direct such a project, while anyone with an interest in the subject can learn the essential concepts of how to make nuclear weapons.
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