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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).
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (back-R) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (back-L) stand behind Egypt's electricity and renewable energy minister, Mohamed Shaker (R), and Alexei Likkhachev, the director-general of Russia's Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, as they sign a bilateral agreement in Cairo on Dec. 11, 2017. Egypt and Russia signed a final contract for the building of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, during a visit to Cairo by Putin. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

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.

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