Today Friday, the former head of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority affiliated to the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy, Dr. Khalil Yasuo died after struggling with illness.

Yaso is considered one of the most prominent Egyptian scientists in the field of nuclear power, as he worked to revive the project of building a “Dabba” nuclear power plant.

“Yasu” is considered one of the most important officials of the Ministry of Power and the Atomic Energy Plant Authority in recent years, and he played a major role in completing contracts and agreements with the Russian company Rosatom for a nuclear power plant in Dabah. Played.

Yasu has participated in numerous discussions, negotiations and discussions with the Russian side over the past 3 years as a member of the committee set up to review nuclear energy contracts and agreements, as an advisor to the Egyptian Minister of Power for nuclear power matters In addition to his work. .

Yaso led the first Egyptian nuclear delegation to Moscow after the nuclear deal was signed between Egypt and Russia, and witnessed by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

Yaso continued his bid after leaving his post as head of the Atomic Energy Plant Authority, and as technical advisor to the Egyptian nuclear program, which is based on the peaceful use of generating electricity.

Employees of the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy, the Nuclear Power Plants Authority, the Power Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency, the Egyptian Power Transmission Company and the Nuclear Power Plants Authority, mourned Yasho’s departure, stressing that “the deceased During his chairmanship of the authority, Daba was instrumental in reviving the project. “