Egypt announces fees for nuclear plant permit

Egypt's cabinet announced details of the fees to establish nuclear power plants to generate electricity or distilled water.

The process includes a fee for the location permit of LE1.5 million, an establishing permit fee of LE3 million, a fee for pre-activation tests set at LE1 million and a fee for production at LE1 million.

Another fee will be applied to running a nuclear facility, which will be a share of 0.001 percent of annual production.

Fees will also be charged for research reactiors; location permits and the fee for establishing the facility are LE100,000 each, pre-activation tests will cost LE80,000, and annual operations will require a fee of LE20,000.

The details of the costs were announced in the government’s official gazette.

The Egyptian government started developing the infrastructure for a nuclear power plant in May in Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast.

A global tender to international companies for the Dabaa plant is expected before the end of the calendar year, state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported in July.