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nuclear site argument in Egypt

A nuclear falling out
El Abram 5 sept 09
Parliamentarians and nuclear power scientists appeal to President Hosni Mubarak to prevent businessmen from interfering in the choice of sites for nuclear power plants, Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Members of the Shura Council’s Industry and Energy Committee have accused a number of influential businessmen of seeking to exclude Al-Dabaa, on Egypt’s northern Mediterranean coast, from being considered a possible site for one of the five nuclear power plants Egypt proposed to build over the next two decades. Ibrahim Kamel, a multi-millionaire industrialist and member of the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) Secretariat General, was singled out for attack, even by NDP members of the committee.

Mohamed Ragab, NDP Shura Council spokesman, has charged that Kamel, and other influential businessmen close to the NDP, want to use the site for profitable tourist developments, despite the fact that since the 1980s over LE500 million has been spent on feasibility studies that confirm it is among the most suitable locations for a nuclear power plant.

Al-Ahram Weekly | Egypt | A nuclear falling out

September 5, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, MIDDLE EAST, politics | antinuclear, nuclear