The International Atomic Energy Agency is ready to help Egypt in the construction of nuclear power stations, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Tuesday during a visit to Cairo.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is ready to help
Egypt
in
the construction of nuclear power stations, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said
Tuesday during a visit to
Cairo
.
"The agency is happy to cooperate with
Egypt
in
its nuclear energy program," Amano told reporters, adding that
Egypt
was
close to finalizing the project and its location.
President Hosni Mubarak declared in 2007 that
Egypt
was
ready to relaunch its nuclear energy program, which started with the
Soviet
Union
in 1961 but was frozen following the 1986 nuclear disaster at
Chernobyl
in
the
Ukraine
.
Egypt
has
one research reactor at Inshas, northeast of
Cairo
, and
plans to build four stations under the supervision of the IAEA.
Amano said his agency had proposed to send a mission to
Egypt
,
without elaborating.
For his part, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he and Amano had discussed
"ways in which the IAEA could help" his country with its nuclear
program.
"We have agreed on the stages with which the agency can help
Egypt
to
relaunch its nuclear reactor at Inshas," he said.
Egypt
,
which ratified the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1981, seeks a nuclear
weapons-free
Middle East
and regularly criticizes
Israel
for
its undeclared nuclear arsenal.
However,
Egypt
has
also said it won't sign a voluntary additional protocol to the NPT that would
allow more intrusive inspections, saying it could make it too dependent on
other countries for nuclear energy needs.
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