Current state

Status	Under construction
Design	VVER-1200 (PWR)
Net capacity	1,100 MWe
Country	Egypt
Vendor	Rosatom
Owner / operator	Nuclear Power Plants Authority (Egypt)
Construction start	2022-07-20
Original COD target	2028
Current COD estimate	2028
Schedule slippage	0 years

Notes

Africa's largest nuclear project; four VVER-1200 units (4.8 GW). Grid connection 2028 reconfirmed by Rosatom DG Likhachev July 2026; first fuel H1 2027. Unit 2 RPV installed 2026-07-09. Plant-level Sep 2026: KHNP-NPPA turbine-hall progress review Sep 10 (CINIE); Egypt studying expansion from 4 to 6 units (CINIE, unclear — not asserted).

Milestone log

2022-07-20 — First concrete, Unit 1 (source)
2025-11-15 — Reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 installed (source)
2026-07-09 — Rosatom confirms schedule - first nuclear fuel delivery targeted for first half of 2027, unit grid connection in 2028 (statement at unit 2 RPV ceremony) (source)
2026-09-26 — Electricity minister Esmat meets ASE head Petrov: fuel-receipt prep for 2027, turbine manufacturing, grid-connection prep reviewed; project on schedule (NPPA/SIS via Ahram) (source)

The milestone log is append-only: corrections are recorded as new entries, never rewrites. Full history via /api/v1/changes.

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Current state

Notes

Milestone log

NNN coverage

On the VVER-1200 design

Sources