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50 Pounds El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant
| Issuer | Central Bank of Egypt |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Thickness | 2.31 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts two large industrial structures associated with the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant construction, rendered in high relief against a textured field suggesting a map outline in the background. The left structure appears to be a cylindrical reactor vessel or containment component, while the right shows a tall construction crane or lattice tower. The Arabic inscription curves around the upper portion of the field referencing the installation of the reactor core catcher for the first unit. The Gregorian year '2023' is inscribed along the lower exergue in Latin numerals. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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El Dabaa sits on Egypt's Mediterranean coast roughly 300 kilometers northwest of Cairo, and the nuclear plant taking shape there has been decades in the making — first proposed in the 1980s, repeatedly shelved, and finally revived through a 2015 agreement with Russia's Rosatom. The project has faced sustained criticism from neighboring communities over resettlement disputes and from international observers over financing arrangements that leave Egypt carrying substantial sovereign debt to Moscow.
This commemorative was issued before any of the plant's four VVER-1200 reactors reached operational status.