South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility signs $1.2bn Egypt nuclear plant contract

South Korean company Doosan Energbility said on Thursday that it had signed a $1.2 billion contract with the Korea Hydropower and Nuclear Power (KHNP) for the construction of a turbine island as part of El Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt.

Doosan will install turbines and generators and build 82 facilities such as air conditioning systems, turbine building as well as the setting up of the water treatment at the plant by 2029.

The company also establishes a cooperative relationship with Egyptian companies in the construction and equipment field to meet the state’s requests.

El Dabaa project was won in 2017 by ASE JSC, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom, from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (NPPA), Doosan said.

Under the project, a total of four 1,200MW reactors are set to be built at a site located 300km northwest of Cairo.

Doosan has supplied 34 reactors, 124 steam generators and exported 11 reactors and 44 steam generators. It also participated in the construction of 10 local nuclear power plants.