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May 21st, 2017 
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Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Egyptian parliament’s Energy and Environment Committee is discussing a proposed law aimed to regulate the construction of nuclear power plants. Omitted from the discourse is the fact that Egypt plans to construct its Russian nuclear power plant in an area where a major tsunami is overdue and expected so much that international emergency and evacuation plans have been proposed and developed.
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The proposed law consists of 19 articles aiming at the creation of “the executive authority on the supervision of the construction of nuclear power station projects.” Deliberations about the law are linked to Egypt’s plans to establish its first nuclear power plant after signing an agreement with Russia in February 2015.
The plant in Dabaa, 130km northwest of Cairo, would have a capacity of 4,800MW. The contracts are currently being finalized, and include clauses on technical support, operation, maintenance, and fuel depots. Once the contracts have been finalized they will be sent to Egypt’s State Council for approval. If approved by the State Council the Presidency is set to organize an inauguration ceremony in June 2017, to be attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin.
Russia agreed to provide a government loan of $25bn out of the plant’s for $30bn. Cost to finance equipment and services for construction and operation. The loan is used to finance 85% of the value of each contract to implement works, services, and shipments of the project. The Egyptian side will pay the remaining amount, representing 15% in the form of installments. The term of the loan is 13 years over the period from 2016 until 2028, at a 3% annual interest rate.
The Coming Mediterranean Tsunami and Nuclear Russian Roulette
Independent, informed and honest economists as well as experts in nuclear energy have long deflated the myth about the “too cheap to meter” slogan that was used to promote the “peaceful use of atoms” at the height of the cold war.
The cost associated with the storage of highly radioactive “spent fuel” for decades to centuries and millennia is orders of magnitude higher than any “revenue” that any NPP can ever accumulate. Add to this the price tag for decommissioning the “plant”. Add to that the known health-related cost linked to nuclear power plants. …
And this is the best case scenario, provided that nothing goes awry, like at Thee Miles Island, USA, in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, or in Fukushima after an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami led to catastrophic meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Egypt is about to join the club of Mediterranean nations that are playing Nuclear Russian Roulette.
It Can’t Happen Here? Yes It Can – And It Will
Could an earthquake in the Mediterranean cause a Fukushima-like tsunami in Egypt? The answer is not only “yes it can”, it is “yes it will”, and experts warn that a catastrophic tsunami could inundate and devastate the Egyptian coast “at any moment”.
In 2007 Ata Elias and colleagues of the National Center for Geophysical Research in Beirut, Lebanon, discovered a new underwater fault line in the Mediterranean that now can explain previous catastrophic tsunamis that destroyed coastlines and cities. Elias noted that the fault line was the cause of the catastrophic earthquake in 551 A.D. The fault is estimated to produce a megathrust earthquake averagely every 800 years, so the next one is, so to speak, overdue.
The previously unrecognized, at least 100 km long fault line in the Hellenic Trench is, contrary to other fault lines not “lubricated”.
Roger Bilham, geophysicist at the University of Boulder, Colorado commented on the 2007 discovery of the new fault line, saying that the study presents “bad news” – namely, that a handful of faults in the area “could slip in megaquakes (a.k.a. megathrust earthquakes) at any time”. Bilham added: “That the Mediterranean, with its growing coastal population in excess of 130 million … could host a large tsunami at any moment is cause for considerable unease”.
The historian Ammianus Marcellinus documented the devastating effects of the last megathrust earthquake and tsunami event in Alexandria, Egypt for posterity. Marcellinus wrote:
“The solidity of the whole earth was made to shake and shudder, and the sea was driven away,” he wrote. “The mass of waters returning when least expected killed many thousands by drowning. … Huge ships … perched on the roofs of houses …and others were hurled nearly two miles [3.2 kilometers] from the shore. … “
Other, separate accounts tell of earthquakes and tsunamis hitting other cities around the Mediterranean at roughly the same time. What would Ammianus Marcellinus have written for posterity, had there been a Nuclear Power “Plant” in Dabaa? Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi will be remembered as the General who came to power by a people-powered coup who built the New Suez Canal within one year, and who is building new ports and other vital infrastructure for and in Egypt. Why add a killer “plant” to the equation and silence those in Egypt (and Russia) who voice justified concerns?
CH/L – nsnbc 20.05.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/05/20/egypt-to-regulate-its-nuclear-russian-roulette/
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