Posted on 09/04/2014 4:57:16 AM PDT by thackney
Energy officials in Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday that they are embarking on a plan to build a nuclear reactor “for peaceful purposes,” Israel’s NRG News reported, quoting the London-based “Al-Hayat” Arabic-language daily.
Senior sources in the Muslim kingdom told the newspaper that construction of the reactor is expected to begin before the end of the calendar year.
“Construction of the first Saudi nuclear reactor will take ten years, according to the plan, although we hope that we can complete the task in less time,” the newspaper said, quoting Saudi sources.
The kingdom’s ultimate goal, the report stated, is to establish four nuclear reactors throughout the country.
Meanwhile, nuclear industry monitor, the World Nuclear Association (WNA) said, in a report released in May, that the kingdom’s goal is, in fact, 16 nuclear power reactors, “to be built over the next 20 years at a cost of more than $80 billion, with the first reactor on line in 2022.”
The Saudis hope to reach “17 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2032,” which would supply 15 percent of their projected needs by then. “The development of atomic energy is essential to meet the Kingdom’s growing requirements for energy to generate electricity, produce desalinated water and reduce reliance on depleting hydrocarbon resources,” Saudi officials said in 2010.
The Australian reported in mid August, that the Kingdom and China’s state-owned National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) will collaborate on nuclear and renewable energy, according to a deal signed between the sides in 2012.
Israeli officials have long maintained that the nuclear progress of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s neighbor and rival, would set off a regional nuclear arms race.
Hhhuuummm, what could go wrong?
Why don’t they just purchase one from Iran - thanks to international indifference and foot-dragging, the neighbor to the east has several extras in addition to their offensive nuclear weapons.
Think Israel. Think Iraq 1980.
They’re thinking Ukraine 2014: treaties for protection by foreign superpowers are worth exactly nothing. If you don’t have nukes, you’re just awaiting takeover.
this is because allies of the United States no longer trust us in the way they once did.
This is also the reason why Japan is concluding a much higher level of bilateral activity in Asia than previously.
Now n Superman pulls off his business suit to show his big S, people glance over, shrug, and just keep doing what they had been doing.
remember last month when on two occasions ‘nidentified aircraft” attacked rebel ground targets in Tripoli and in other areas of Libya?
that was the United Arab Emirates, using F-16’s, and increasingly we see (former?) US allies undertake actions without consultation with the United States.
It’s happening more.and more.
It’s happening because they don’t trust us.
This would have been unthinkable just seven or eight years ago.
Yup. Next up South Korea, Japan, Taiwan with expanded “peaceful” nuclear programs.
see my tag...
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