United Arab Emirates' First Nuclear Power Plant Gets Green Light
IN THIS ISSUE: UAE's first nuclear power plant gets green light, NATO's nuclear realism, nuclear law's 'national security' clause must be dropped, Australia's nuclear dilemma, nuclear weapon safety hindered by cuts, says MoD report, nuclear hypocrisy.
UAE's First Nuclear Power Plant Gets Green Light April Yee | National
The nuclear regulator has given the green light for the construction of the UAE's first nuclear plant. Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) is set to pour the first concrete July 19 at the coastal site of Baraka, where four nuclear reactors supplied by a South Korean consortium are scheduled to come online between 2017 and 2020.
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Karl-Heinz Kamp | Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe At its Chicago summit, NATO approved the "Deterrence and Defense Posture Review," one of the summit's most important achievements, as it ends NATO's dispute on the future of those U.S. nuclear weapons still stationed in Europe. Full Article Asahi Shimbun A revision to the Atomic Energy Basic Law adding an appendix stating that nuclear power should "contribute to national security" has passed the Diet. Those words, which could provoke suspicions that Japan is planning to develop nuclear weapons, should be deleted in the next Diet session. Full Article Maria Rost Rublee | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Experts agree that the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit must go further in securing nuclear materials from disasters and, most important, terrorist threats -- but agreement on precisely how to do this is harder to come by. In this regard, Australia has much to offer. Full Article Rob Edwards | Guardian The safety of Britain's nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered submarines is being increasingly jeopardised by spending cuts and staff shortages, according to a report from the Ministry of Defence. The report warns that there is a "lack of adequate resource to deliver the defence nuclear programmes safely." Full Article
Dr Maleeha Lodhi | News International At a time when the Nuclear Suppliers Group's annual plenary meeting was debating the US plan for India's membership of the NSG, news reports referred to objections from some Western countries over China's nuclear cooperation with Pakistan. Full Article |
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