South Korean company Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) will construct the ‘turbine islands’ for Egypt’s first nuclear power plant (NPP), at El Dabaa, on the country’s Mediterranean coast, some 320 km north-west of Cairo. NPPs are subdivided into ‘nuclear islands containing the reactors and their associated systems and infrastructure, turbine islands, with the electricity-generating turbines and their associated systems and infrastructure, and the ‘balance of plant’, which is basically the …
