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Green Light for Green Energy - Egypt Building Nuclear Station

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Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:27

Green Light for Green Energy - Egypt Building Nuclear Station

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gave the green light for implementing the Egyptian peaceful nuclear programme. The President put an end to wide range controversy by selecting Daba as the site of the first electricity power station to be run by nuclear energy, presidential spokesman Suleiman Awwad said.

The President presided over a meeting by the Supreme council for peaceful uses of nuclear energy. During the meeting, the President said that studies conducted with the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) stressed that Daba is the best site for establishing a nuclear station.

Awwad termed the meeting as very important and marks a leap in the implementation of a strategic program for energy supplies and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

President Mubarak has become the chair of the Supreme Council for the Peaceful Purposes of Nuclear Power after its recent restructure prompted by Egypt's announced plans for establishing nuclear power stations, Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awwad said.

During the council's meeting, several ministers posted the president on the steps taken so far for implementing the program on peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

The president called for taking more executive steps in the coming period, including ratifying the executive statute of law regulating nuclear and radioactive activities in order to get the National Center for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Control (NCNSRC) to be fully independent from the Electricity Ministry and to follow up how far nuclear power stations would be committed to high nuclear safety levels, the spokesman said.

Mubarak called for putting out the first nuclear power station to tender before the end of 2010, Awwad said.

Studies since 1980s have recommended Dab'a as the suitable place for the project, Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awwad said.

Egypt has also consulted the International Atomic Energy Agency with regard to the location's selection and - in a full cooperation gesture - IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has visited Egypt and held a meeting with Electricity Minister Hassan Younis in this respect.

Although there were alternative places, the criteria set by the IAEA for selecting the best place for a nuclear power station have stressed that Dab'a is the best site, Awwad said.

Minister of Finance Youssef Butros Ghali has posted President Hosni Mubarak on the options on the table for securing needed funds for the nuclear power station.

He said the Egyptian economy in its current status can bear the cost of such mammoth project.
(SIS)

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