The Egyptian Ministry of Education announced the date for the examination of students applying for admission to the Advanced Technical School for Nuclear Energy Technology at the Dabaa station in Matrouh. The ministry stated that "students who meet the announced conditions and have submitted their files to the directorates will undergo tests at the technological development centers in the educational directorates. Students should follow the ministry's website to print their seat numbers and go to the examination venues at the specified times to take the tests."
Conditions for enrollment in the Dabaa Nuclear School:
- The student must be of Egyptian nationality.
- The age should not exceed 18 years.
- Must have completed the preparatory stage with a total score of no less than 260.
- Scores in mathematics, English language, and science should not be less than 90%.
On November 19, 2015, Egypt and Russia signed a cooperation agreement to establish a nuclear power station with an investment cost of $25 billion, funded by a government loan from Russia to Cairo.
Additionally, Presidents Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Vladimir Putin signed the final agreements for the construction of the Dabaa station during the Russian president's visit to Cairo in December 2017. The Dabaa station will consist of four "3+" generation reactors operating on pressurized water, with a total capacity of 4800 megawatts, 1200 megawatts for each reactor, with the first reactor set to launch in 2028.
The Russian state atomic energy corporation "Rosatom" is building the "Dabaa" station using the best technologies and the highest safety standards globally, as defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
