Dear Colleagues,
6th MEA Nuclear Industry Congress 2020 (Cairo, Egypt | June. 3rd – 4th) will provide renowned speakers to provide the industry’s latest insights, information and inspiration. And today we are so honored to inform that
Mr. Veli-Veikko Elomaa and
Mr. Haitham Alkayyoomi from
Nawah Energy Company attend as speakers.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The independent nuclear regulator for the United Arab Emirates issued the operating license for Unit 1 of the country’s Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, giving the go-ahead on operations for the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world.
The project, which national officials describe as a strategic and economic imperative for the UAE, is more than a decade in the making and involved collaboration with external bodies including the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the government of South Korea.
Once operation of the plant begins — the exact date of which has not been announced, but is expected in the coming weeks — the UAE will become the newest member of an exclusive club of currently just 30 countries running nuclear power operations. It’s also the first new country to launch a nuclear power plant in three decades, the last being China in 1990.
When completed, Barakah will have four reactors with a total capacity of 5,600 megawatts.
