Egypt Plans to Send Nuclear Plant Personnel to Russia for Training

The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy is going to send more than 1,700 trainees to Russia to prepare them for work at the future Egyptian nuclear power plant, the ministry’s spokesman, Ayman Hamza, said on Monday.

CAIRO (Sputnik) – He said that it was too early to speak about specialization of the future trainees.

“If the agreement is signed till the end of the year, the first group of trainees will be sent [to Russia] next April,” Hamza told RIA Novosti.

Earlier on Monday, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker said that Egypt was going to train 1,711 specialists in the nuclear sphere.

Russia and Egypt signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Dabaa NPP on the Mediterranean Sea coast in November 2015. It is set to become the largest construction project carried out by Russia and Egypt since the Aswan Dam built across the Nile.