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GE Says It Wins $700 Million Order for First Egypt Nuclear Plant
General Electric Co. secured a $700 million contract to supply turbine and generator units for Egypt's first nuclear power project, the company said.
GE will supply four turbine units for the country's planned 4,800 megawatt El Dabaa nuclear facility, it said Tuesday in a statement. The company will deliver one turbine each year from 2023 until 2026, and the units will begin operating at the rate of one per year from 2026 until 2029, Michael Keroulle, chief commercial officer for GE's Steam Power business, said in a phone interview.
The contract was awarded by AAEM, a joint venture between GE and Russia-based Atomenergomash that will design and supply the turbine system for the reactor, GE said in an emailed response to questions.
Sounds like it awarded itself the contract.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:22AM (5 children)
This is going to end well!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)
I think giving countries in that region of the world a secure, powerful, and stable power supply would be quite helpful in solving a lot of the issues. A nuclear power plant would secure the power supply for the local population not involved in the larger conflicts. Russia/USA/France/etc won't bomb a nuke plant like they would a coal or nat gas plant when they are flexing their arms.
Also, as far as possible terrorists go. I know that I get significantly angrier the hotter the weather gets, I presume others are the same way. If you can get these people some good AC they might be less angry.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Wednesday October 10 2018, @03:20AM
If you can get these people some schools for their kids, a regular source of food and possibly some sort of doctor for when they are really sick it would go a long way to make them less angry. Heck, some of them would be content with two walls and a piece of tin to call their own.
The whole problem is that they always have a foot on their neck. Look at the "poor" (Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine) countries in the middle east and compare them to the "rich" (UAE, Qatar, Kuwait) ones. Take most poor places on earth and then compare them to ones with basic civilisation. If the world spent as much on civilisation as it does on war, we would be in a really different place.
There's that whole thing about society being only three square meals away from revolution and anarchy. Half the world proves that every day.
(Score: 1, Troll) by bob_super on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:32AM (1 child)
They've got a lot of catching-up to do to match the US, Russia, and Japan in the nuke "incident" department.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday October 10 2018, @05:40AM
Not really. Just something bigger than Chernobyl and they've caught up.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:53AM
pakistan isn't muslim?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:50AM (3 children)
I know that recently (since a few years already), Iran wanted to position itself as the main power distributor in the region. They would have had a nuclear reactor if it wasn't for sanctions put on them.
Now it's Egypt propped up, controlled by a different muslim caste that will have nuclear power. I'm not sure where this is going.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 10 2018, @01:10AM (2 children)
Egypt is both propped up and controlled by the US, not some Muslim caste.
The US had the Egyptian military overthrow the democratically elected government, and then gave them military aid, despite that being against US law.
Despite the Muslim Brotherhood being outlawed, they still ran as independent candidates, and absolutely cleaned up. The Egyptian military (presumably with CIA help, but I can't find any evidence of that) then undermined the government until they could stage a coup.
The current president El-Sisi is a fairly standard brutal dictator of the type the US tends to support.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Wednesday October 10 2018, @12:59PM (1 child)
It would be too easy to equate "democratically elected" with good, though. The Muslim Brotherhood showed the very same signs of starting to clean the administration as any other dictatorship. Historically, Egypt has been run by the military, its presidents being tolerated. If you go square against the military (like the Muslim Brotherhood), this is what you can expect.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 10 2018, @06:47PM
That is a good point, and I did not intend to imply the Muslim Brotherhood would be any better than what the Egyptians have had to put up with, but the fact is the military staged a coup, and Mr. Obama'a government declared that it wasn't a coup (even though it absolutely was) so they could continue to sell guns and bombs in egypt.
This is against US law, not that that means anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @01:21AM (2 children)
Now if we could get GE to pay taxes then all will be fine. Don't buy GE crap. I don't. Not even used. Hate to see the GE logo on anything in my house.
(Score: 5, Funny) by epitaxial on Wednesday October 10 2018, @02:23AM (1 child)
Like the gold saying goes you can't spell garbage without GE.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bobs on Wednesday October 10 2018, @01:47PM
What about "Trump"? No GE required.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10 2018, @10:48AM
If this GE project is run anything like one I'm familiar with it will be a long time before this system is making any power. The project I know about (updating a large machine from 30 year old hydrostatic drives to AC electric machines) has gone about 5 years and 3 very expensive (lightweight, water cooled) electric motors over the original estimates. The machine owner has finally gone directly to a different motor designer/manufacturer to get something that meets the original spec.