Egypt inaugurates a nuclear reactor in mid October

Egypt will inaugurate its second nuclear reactor designated for peaceful purposes this month. The reactor will be run under the supervision of international experts for two years in order to ascertain the safety measures before the Egyptian experts take over the responsibility.

The reactor was set up though a cooperation agreement signed in 1992 between Egypt and Argentine. Argentine halted the agreement which included Iraq after the eruption of the Gulf War.

Cairo confirmed that its new reactor is for peaceful purposes and works according to the regulations of the international laws. It called on any country which might feel "uncomfortable" about the reactor to remember that the USA transformed a nuclear reactor designated for peaceful purposes in the State of Tennessee, USA into a nuclear reactor for military purposes, thus violating the Nuclear pact.

Diplomatic sources in Egypt confirmed Egypt’s insistence on refusing to sign the International Agreement for Chemical Disarmament before Israel signs the Nuclear Pact and before the parties that signed the Middle East Statement in New York in 1995 take the necessary steps for its application. These parties had signed an agreement to make the period of the Nuclear Pact indefinite.

It is worth mentioning that the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser set up the first nuclear reactor in 1961 in Inshas. After his death, the Egyptian nuclear projects stopped until President Mubarak gave these projects new life.