South Korea has won a 3 trillion won ($2.25 billion) deal to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt, boosting its sluggish nuclear power at home, a presidential spokesman said, citing a presidential spokesman.

She pointed out that “under the agreement signed in Cairo, the state-owned Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company will supply equipment and construct turbine buildings for the first nuclear power plant in El Dabaa, which is located 300 km northwest of Cairo.” Construction of 4 nuclear reactors by the Russian company Atomstroyexport.

For his part, Chief Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs Choi Sang-mok noted that “the project is the largest export nuclear power plant since 2009, when South Korea built the Baraka nuclear power plant in the UAE.”