El Dabaa

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El Dabaa ( ) is a town in the Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. It lies 184 mi from Cairo on the north coast and is served by the El Alamain International Airport. El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant is located north east of the city.

In 2023, El Dabaa had an estimated population of 30,332.

El Dabaa Nuclear Project

In 2012, a story published in the news section of Nature Journal website, stated that:"... [radioactive] material was taken from a laboratory at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant on the country's Mediterranean coast." But as of 2020, the El Dabaa nuclear power plant was only bare land. As of 2017, only the first stage of preliminary engineering survey was conducted and the hydrographic and hydrological survey work was carried on. Construction on the plant was expected to start in 2020; it eventually started in mid-2022.

Protesters have targeted El Dabaa claiming that their land was wrongly taken by the government to make way for the nuclear plant. As a result of those protests, the proposed construction site was shut down. The protests targeting El Dabaa ended in 2012 when residents were compensated.

On 7 November 2013 Egyptian President Adly Mansour announced that the nuclear power program would be restarted. On 14 November 2013, a spokesman for the electricity ministry, 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 first target year for operation was 2019; the plant would be used for 60 years and function as a light water reactor with 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.

The first concrete was poured on 1 July 2022. The four units are being built almost concurrently and the new target date to be fully operational is 2030.

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh), but it is highly moderated by its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea along the northern coast of Egypt.

|metric first = yes |single line = yes |location= El Dabaa |Jan record high C = 28.6 |Feb record high C = 30.9 |Mar record high C = 38.2 |Apr record high C = 43.2 |May record high C = 47.1 |Jun record high C = 46.8 |Jul record high C = 39.0 |Aug record high C = 41.8 |Sep record high C = 40.0 |Oct record high C = 37.7 |Nov record high C = 32.6 |Dec record high C = 28.3 |year record high C = 47.1 |Jan high C = 17.8 |Feb high C = 18.7 |Mar high C = 20.4 |Apr high C = 23.6 |May high C = 26 |Jun high C = 28.5 |Jul high C = 29.4 |Aug high C = 30 |Sep high C = 28.9 |Oct high C = 26.7 |Nov high C = 23.2 |Dec high C = 19.7 |year high C = 24.4 |Jan mean C = 12.8 |Feb mean C = 13.7 |Mar mean C = 15 |Apr mean C = 17.8 |May mean C = 20.6 |Jun mean C = 23.8 |Jul mean C = 25.4 |Aug mean C = 25.8 |Sep mean C = 24.5 |Oct mean C = 22 |Nov mean C = 18.2 |Dec mean C = 14.4 |year mean C = 19.5 |Jan low C = 7.8 |Feb low C = 8.1 |Mar low C = 9.7 |Apr low C = 12.1 |May low C = 14.6 |Jun low C = 18.2 |Jul low C = 20.7 |Aug low C = 21 |Sep low C = 19.5 |Oct low C = 16.6 |Nov low C = 13 |Dec low C = 9.3 |year low C = 14.2 |Jan record low C = 0.9 |Feb record low C = 2.8 |Mar record low C = 3.1 |Apr record low C = 5.6 |May record low C = 8.4 |Jun record low C = 11.6 |Jul record low C = 14.5 |Aug record low C = 15.6 |Sep record low C = 13.7 |Oct record low C = 11.4 |Nov record low C = 7.4 |Dec record low C = 1.8 |year record low C = 0.9 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 32 |Feb precipitation mm = 18 |Mar precipitation mm = 8 |Apr precipitation mm = 2 |May precipitation mm = 2 |Jun precipitation mm = 1 |Jul precipitation mm = 0 |Aug precipitation mm = 0 |Sep precipitation mm = 1 |Oct precipitation mm = 12 |Nov precipitation mm = 15 |Dec precipitation mm = 28 |year precipitation mm = 119 |unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm |Jan precipitation days = 3.4 |Feb precipitation days = 1.4 |Mar precipitation days = 1.0 |Apr precipitation days = 0.4 |May precipitation days = 0.1 |Jun precipitation days = 0.0 |Jul precipitation days = 0.0 |Aug precipitation days = 0.0 |Sep precipitation days = 0.1 |Oct precipitation days = 1.0 |Nov precipitation days = 1.3 |Dec precipitation days = 2.6 |year precipitation days = 11.3 |Jan humidity = 67 |Feb humidity = 65 |Mar humidity = 67 |Apr humidity = 64 |May humidity = 66 |Jun humidity = 67 |Jul humidity = 69 |Aug humidity = 69 |Sep humidity = 66 |Oct humidity = 65 |Nov humidity = 64 |Dec humidity = 64 |year humidity = 66.1 |Jan sun = 200.7 |Feb sun = 205.4 |Mar sun = 255.7 |Apr sun = 279.4 |May sun = 317.3 |Jun sun = 356.4 |Jul sun = 374.0 |Aug sun = 354.9 |Sep sun = 313.8 |Oct sun = 274.9 |Nov sun = 228.0 |Dec sun = 205.0 |year sun = 3365.5 |source 1 = NOAA{{cite web | url = ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REG__I/UB/62309.TXT | title = Dabaa Climate Normals 1961–1990 | publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250222003711/ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REG__I/UB/62309.TXT | archive-date = 2025-02-22 | url-status = dead | access-date = 5 April 2015}}

|source 2= Climate Charts

References

References

  1. "Egypt: Governorates, Major Cities & Towns - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information".
  2. (10 January 2008). "Cairo prepares El-Dabaa nuclear power site". MEED MEDIA FZ LLC.
  3. Sharon Weinberger. (20 January 2012). "Radioactive material stolen in Egypt". Nature.
  4. "El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant".
  5. Conor, Ailie. "Cause for celebration? From opposition to acceptance of the Dabaa nuclear power plant".
  6. (1 October 2013). "Egypt: Armed Forces Thank Dabaa Residents".
  7. (7 November 2013). "Mansour revives plan for nuclear power plant on Egyptian coast".
  8. (14 November 2013). "Egypt to seek bids for first nuclear plant".
  9. (20 July 2014). "Nuclear plant tender to launch by year’s end; winning country to finance project: El-Osery".
  10. (15 November 2013). "Ministry plans to put nuclear plant construction to tender".
  11. Ezzidin, Toqa. (29 November 2015). "El-Dabaa nuclear station to generate electricity in 2024: Prime Minister". Daily News.
  12. (20 March 2017). "Egypt and Russia agree on two contracts for El Dabaa NPP". Nuclear Engineering International.
  13. Farag, Mohamed. (14 March 2017). "Russia launches operations of nuclear unit similar to Dabaa units". Daily News.
  14. (11 December 2017). "'Notice to proceed' contracts signed for El Dabaa". World Nuclear News.
  15. (28 April 2025). "Work under way on El Dabaa local area network". World Nuclear News.
  16. "Dabaa, Egypt: Climate, Global Warming, and Daylight Charts and Data". Climate Charts.

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