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Former President of ''Nuclear Safety'': We Will Not Have a Nuclear Plant for 10 Years and Egypt Does Not Have Cadres for its Establishment or Operation
Dr. Mohamed Abdel Rahman Salama, former chairman of the Center for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Control, said that Egypt does not have at the moment officials who can participate in the design, establishment and operation of a nuclear power plant about to be established. He asked the Egyptian government to quickly begin training and equipping a new cadre as of now, pointing out that the establishment of an operational nuclear power plant will take at least 10 years if we begin to establish it immediately.
This came in the wake of a statement by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, that Egypt would not start from scratch in the nuclear field where he affirmed that Egypt has the cadres for the management and operation of nuclear plants. This was following other statements by Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, where he denied that Egypt has the cadres for the construction and operation of a nuclear plant. Salama confirmed in an exclusive interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, which will be published in full tomorrow, that the Australian company 'Parsons,' may refuse the Dabaa site, and may call upon the Egyptian government to study other sites, which the Egyptian government will adhere to – according to him. He pointed out that the choice of Dabaa site was made after comparison with 10 other locations, mostly overlooking the Red Sea coast, adding that Dabaa has the advantage of low seismic activity and proximity to water sources.
He added: "Egypt's nuclear program has been delayed since the Chernobyl reactor accident in 1986. It was a political decision, resulting in a miscarriage of the moral and psychological state of nuclear scientists, which forced some of them to leave the country, or to advance in positions at the International Atomic Energy Agency overseeing nuclear power stations. There are some who have died, and perhaps we will not find any scientists from the sixties, seventies or eighties generations, with the launch of the nuclear power plant service in the Egyptian power network, which may take at least 10 years."
