El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant is the first nuclear power plant planned for Egypt and will be located at El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt, about 320 kilometers northwest of Cairo. The plant will have four VVER-1200 reactors, making Egypt the only country in the region to have a Generation III+ reactor.
The Director General of the Russian company Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, said that sanctions are an obstacle to the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Egypt, “but they will not stop us.” The Dabaa nuclear power plant will have four identical sections, called power units. Each of these units can produce 1,200 megawatts of electricity. The plant will use Russian-made VVER-1200 generation III+ pressurized water reactors.