Russia launches production for Egypt’s nuclear power plant
Ukraine war not stopping Russia’s Rosatom from manufacturing equipment for Egypt’s first nuclear power plant.
![Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (back-R) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (back-L).](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/2022-06/GettyImages-890301872.jpeg?h=8dfd537e&itok=IiDLs1qG)
CAIRO — In early June, Russia's state-owned atomic energy company, Rosatom, announced the start of production of equipment for the Egyptian nuclear power plant in Dabaa, northwest of Cairo.
The Russian announcement coincided with the visit to Moscow of a high-level Egyptian delegation led by the head of Egypt's Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA), Amgad al-Wakeel, on June 1, during which he visited the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and Russian factories in the city of Kolpino.