South Korea Selected to Participate in Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Project

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has been selected to participate in Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear power plant project. (AFP file photo)
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has been selected to participate in Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear power plant project. (AFP file photo)
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South Korea Selected to Participate in Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Project

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has been selected to participate in Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear power plant project. (AFP file photo)
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has been selected to participate in Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear power plant project. (AFP file photo)

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has been selected to participate in Egypt’s El-Dabaa nuclear power plant project, Yonhap News Agency said on Sunday.

KHNP said it has been selected as the single-source supplier of "turbine islands" for Egypt's first nuclear power plant project, except for four 1,200-MW reactors with a capacity of 4,800 megawatts being built by Russia.

The two sides plan on completing the negotiations regarding the contract by the end of next month and to sign it in the end of April.

The El Dabaa NPP will be built on the Mediterranean coast, about 300 km northwestward of Cairo

The nuclear power plant project is based on contracts that entered into force on December 11, 2017.

Moscow will supply Russian nuclear fuel for its entire life cycle. It will also assist Egyptian partners in training personnel and plant maintenance for the first 10 years of its operation.

Russia is also contracted to build a special storage facility and supply containers for storing used nuclear fuel.



Norway Says Plans to Raise Financial Support for Ukraine

Ukrainian rescuers evacuate patients from a damaged clinic following a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 01 March 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV
Ukrainian rescuers evacuate patients from a damaged clinic following a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 01 March 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV
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Norway Says Plans to Raise Financial Support for Ukraine

Ukrainian rescuers evacuate patients from a damaged clinic following a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 01 March 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV
Ukrainian rescuers evacuate patients from a damaged clinic following a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 01 March 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY KOZLOV

The Norwegian government will soon ask that parliament increases its financial backing for Ukraine, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on Saturday.

"I can say today that we will go back to parliament in the near future with a proposal to increase the support," Stoere told NRK, according to Reuters.

Norway's parliament late last year agreed to spend a total of 35 billion Norwegian crowns ($3.12 billion) on military and civilian support for Ukraine in 2025 and a total of 155 billion crowns in the years from 2023 to 2030.

Stoere will meet with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in London on Sunday.

Zelenskiy's meeting with US President Donald Trump ended in disaster on Friday, after the two leaders clashed in an extraordinary exchange before the world's media at the White House over the war with Russia.