Doosan Enerbility (formerly Doosan Heavy Industries) has won a contract worth KRW1.6tn (US$1.21bn) from Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) for constructing the turbine island at the 4.8GW El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt.
According to the South Korean heavy industrial company, the El Dabaa project marks its first overseas construction contract for a nuclear power plant. Doosan Enerbility will also be responsible for providing the main equipment which include the reactors and steam generators.
The El Dabaa nuclear power plant project was won by Rosatom subsidiary ASE in 2017 from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency (NPPA). In August 2022, KHNP won a contract from ASE to build the turbine island of the nuclear power project. The construction of the first tower building is slated to begin in August 2023.
The first ever nuclear power project to be built in Egypt calls for the construction of four reactors, each of 1.2GW capacity, 300km to the northwest of the capital city of Cairo. The El Dabaa nuclear project, which is estimated to cost around US$30bn, entered into the construction stage in July 2022.
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