REGIONAL SITING OF EL DABAA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EGYPTIAN NATIONAL PROJECT | ||
| Nuclear Sciences Scientific Journal | ||
| Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 197-212 PDF (11.41 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/nssj.2020.265516 | ||
| Author | ||
| HARIDY M. M. HARIDY | ||
| Nuclear Materials Authority, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The area is located on the Northern Western Desert of Egypt from latitudes 30°N to 32°N and from longitudes 27°E to 30°E. The area includes Ras El Dabaa location, the first candidate site to receive the national project in the nuclear power plant, where it is directly located on the Mediterranean Sea shore. In seeking a site for a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) a utility must balance the engineering and economic factors with the special requirement to minimize the radiological risk. This work will provide some insights into the issues involved in siting a nuclear power plant, from the perspective of both the utility and regulator. Among these we will present the general factors associated with the siting of large electrical generating plants; the special factors associated with selection and approval of El Dabaa site for nuclear power plant through studying its geology, fracture lineaments and topography at regional scale (1:500,000). Results of this integrated study show that Ras El Dabaa location satisfies the safety standards of the IAEA 2002, 2003 and 2012 as well as the NRC 2006 and 2014, where it exhibits low topography, very low seismic activity, and low radioactivity while surface fracture lineaments density and trend analyses indicate a NE-SW predominant fracture trend with densities within the safe levels. These factors support and facilitate the security plans, emergency measures and evacuation plans if needed, while the direct location on the Mediterranean guarantees the continuous, easy and sufficient supply of water. Thus, Ras El Dabaa area could be considered to be the first candidate site to receive the nuclear power plant national project of Egypt. | ||
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