Fuel Manufacturing Pilot Plant

{{Short description|Nuclear fuel fabrication facility}}

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| location_map = Egypt

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| location_map_caption = Location of Fuel Manufacturing Pilot{{cite web|last1=Alaniz|first1=A.|last2=Merino|first2=J.|last3=Molli|first3=F.|last4=Brandt|first4=E.|last5=Boock|first5=D.|last6=Maneiro|first6=C.|title=Radioisotope Production Facilities in Egypt|url=http://www.invap.com.ar/ismtr/images/stories/trabajos/Maneiro-Presentation.pdf|website=INVAP|accessdate=19 April 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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| built = {{Start date|1998|12}}{{cite web|last1=Zidan|first1=W.I.|title=LEU Fuel Element Produced by The Egyptian Fuel Manufacturing Pilot Plant|url=http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/31/051/31051254.pdf|website=International Atomic Energy Agency|accessdate=7 April 2015}}

| location = Nuclear Research Center, Inshas, Egypt{{cite web|title=Nuclear Research Center (NRC)|url=http://www.nti.org/facilities/369/|website=Nuclear Threat Initiative|publisher=James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies|accessdate=9 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603063946/http://www.nti.org/facilities/369/|archive-date=3 June 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last1=Müller|first1=Harald|last2=Müller|first2=Daniel|title=WMD Arms Control in the Middle East: Prospects, Obstacles and Options|date=28 February 2015|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=9781472435941|page=114|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aMQBgAAQBAJ|accessdate=8 April 2015}}

| industry = Uranium Fuel Fabrication

| products = MTR-type fuel plates{{cite web|last1=Zidan|first1=W. I.|last2=Elseaidy|first2=I. M.|title=General Description and Production Lines Of The Egyptian Fuel Manufacturing Pilot Plant|url=http://www.igorr.com/home/liblocal/docs/Proceeding/Meeting%208/ts5_elseaidy.pdf|website=International Group on Research Reactors|publisher=CEA|accessdate=7 April 2015}}

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| owner = Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority{{cite web|title=Fuel Element Fabrication Plant|url=https://infcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/FacilityDetails/809?Country=&Status=&Type=&Scale=&SText=|website=Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information Systems|publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency|accessdate=7 April 2015}}

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The Fuel Manufacturing Pilot Plant (FMPP), also known as Fuel Element Fabrication Plant, is a nuclear fuel fabrication facility supplied by the Argentine company INVAP in 1998. The FMPP is considered a Material Testing Reactor (MTR)-type fuel element facility, that produces the fuel elements required for the research reactor ETRR-2.

The plant uses enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6, 19.75% U235) as a raw material which is processed to produce the final MTR-type fuel elements.

The FMPP is owned and operated by the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) at the Nuclear Research Center in Inshas, 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo.{{cite web|title=Fuel Manufacturing Pilot Plant (FMPP)|url=http://www.nti.org/facilities/359/|website=Nuclear Threat Initiative|publisher=James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies|accessdate=7 April 2015}}{{cite web|title=Nuclear Research Center (NRC)|url=http://fas.org/nuke/guide/egypt/facility/nrc.htm|website=Federation of American Scientists|publisher=Webmaster|accessdate=7 April 2015}}