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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 17:55 20/11/2007 Report: Russia to provide Egypt with nuclear expertise By Reuters Tags: Mubarak, Egypt, Russia  Russia has agreed to provide nuclear know-how and technical expertise to Egypt to help Cairo with plans to build civilian nuclear power stations to meet growing energy needs, Egyptian state media said on Tuesday. State news agency MENA said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak had told Egypt that Moscow welcomed the planned resumption of Egypt's nuclear program. "Moscow is ready to give nuclear knowledge and its technical expertise to the Egyptian side in light of Russia's large experience in building nuclear power stations," MENA said, quoting a foreign ministry spokesman. Advertisement Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said last month Egypt would build several nuclear power stations, a year after his politician son Gamal floated the idea of a civilian nuclear program, but did not indicate when the project would get under way. Cairo suspended a peaceful nuclear program after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies said the first 1,000-megawatt reactor could be built at Dabaa on the Mediterranean in eight to 10 years if foreign investment was secured. Washington has said it supports Egypt's plans to develop peaceful nuclear energy. In addition to Russia, China and Kazakhstan have offered cooperation. Officials put Egypt's oil and gas reserves at 15.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 34 years at current production rates. The elder Mubarak has said rising oil prices would nudge the government's energy subsidies to around 50 billion Egyptian pounds ($9 billion) in the current fiscal year starting in July from 43.8 billion pounds in the previous year. Egypt ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1981 and has two research reactors. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency probed Egyptian "failures" in reporting nuclear research in 2004, but concluded that the experiments were not weapons-related. Gamal Mubarak's initial proposal had been greeted with skepticism by opposition groups, which dismissed his announcement as a media stunt designed to bolster his credentials. The 79-year-old president, in power since 1981, is widely believed to be preparing Gamal, a senior ruling party official, to succeed him. Both father and son deny this. Related articles: Egyptian minister: Cairo to start building nuclear powerplants Report: Egypt caves to U.S. pressure, delays nuclear plans Bookmark to del.icio.us Muslim about-face A key U.K. Muslim group ends its boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day. Calling all Aleppo Jews Yad Ben-Zvi is calling for the return of centuries-old Aleppo Codex fragments.   1.   More nuclear proliferation....the race has started 17:15  |  Ask 20/11/07   2.   Ask, Ask someone with a clue 18:29  |  Mark Lincoln 20/11/07   3.   This really makes the pro-Iran war folks look stupid 18:46  |  Pablo B 20/11/07   4.   Russia playing with fire 19:17  |  Brod 20/11/07   5.   Nukes and Russian role 19:48  |  Teacher 20/11/07   6.   WELL....BETTER RUSSIA THAN 19:54  |  Robert 20/11/07   7.   teacher 20:54  |  Better dead than red 20/11/07   8.   Brod 21:37  |  An Elder of Zion 20/11/07   9.   brod 22:14  |  Eli 20/11/07   10.   "What a surprise" 22:39  |  CHGODMK 20/11/07   11.   Robert in Tlv 22:40  |  CHGODMK 20/11/07   12.   Pablo B - not very wise 22:44  |  Rory 20/11/07   13.   Nuclear whore state 22:45  |  Boris 20/11/07   14.   Pablo B, you are right 23:12  |  Mark B. 20/11/07   15.   #4 Brod, revival of the cold war? 23:18  |  Mark B. 20/11/07   16.   #10 Rory - This is civilian nuke tech, not weapons 23:47  |  Pablo B 20/11/07   17.   # 4 brod 00:24  |  Axel 21/11/07   18.   #12 Boris - NPT obligates Russia to be whores 00:27  |  Pablo B 21/11/07   19.   Pablo B - still not very wise 05:11  |  Rory 21/11/07   20.   Pablo # 18 05:29  |  JJ 21/11/07   21.   # 10 Rory 05:35  |  JJ 21/11/07   22.   #21 15:54  |  Pablo 21/11/07   23.   Pablo B and JJ just don`t get it! 21:03  |  DR 21/11/07   24.   Russia needs more money 05:00  |  cristo 22/11/07   25.   Russia has Best Business, they build em. They get destroyed 00:52  |  Tim 24/11/07   26.   KGB-Putin is Israel`s biggest enemy 20:17  |  durak 04/12/07

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