El Dabaa


El Dabaa is a city in the Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. It lies from Cairo on the north coast and is served by the El Alamain International Airport. It is famous for the proposed nuclear power plant that is intended to be constructed in the city. In 2012, radioactive material was stolen from the site.
El Dabaa has been targeted by protesters who are claiming that their land was wrongly taken by the government to make way for the nuclear plant. As of 2012, and as a result of those protests, the site has been shut down. The protests that targeted El Dabaa was ended by the court announcing that they have the right in the land.

El Dabaa Nuclear Project

The residents of El Dabaa decided to give up the land. The Armed Forces thanked the residents of El-Dabaa for their contributions in handing over the land allocated for the establishment of nuclear power plant. In a statement released on 30 September 2013, Egyptian Army spokesman Ahmed Mohammed Ali said that the Army is committed to taking the necessary procedures to compensate those affected from the project.
On 7 November 2013 President Adly Mansour announced that the nuclear power program will be restarted. On 14 November 2013, a spokesman for the electricity ministry named Aktham Abouelela stated that the tender to build the reactor will begin in January 2014, though it has been delayed until the end of 2014. The target year for operation is 2019; the plant would be used for 6 years. The plant would function as a light water reactor and would have a capacity of 950 to 1,650 megawatts.
In November 2015 and March 2017 Egypt signed preliminary agreements with Russian nuclear company Rosatom for a first VVER-1200 unit to start in 2024. In November 2017 preliminary contracts for the construction of four VVER-1200 units were signed in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Climate

classifies its climate as hot desert, but it is highly moderated by its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea along the northern coast of Egypt.