Posted on 03/28/2019 5:42:10 PM PDT by tkocur
The US has approved the sale of nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, the Reuters news agency reported on Thursday. Reuters says US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has allowed companies to sell know-how to the desert kingdom as part of a hoped-for broader deal
Citing a copy of a document it had seen, the global news outlet said US Energy Secretary Rick Perry had granted six secret authorizations to companies to sell the know-how to the desert kingdom as part of a hoped-for broader deal on nuclear power.
Reuters said that the US was looking to build at least two nuclear plants and that Russia and South Korea were also vying for the project. An announcement on the winning bid was to be made later this year, it said.
Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
The US has approved the sale of nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, the Reuters news agency reported on Thursday.
Citing a copy of a document it had seen, the global news outlet said US Energy Secretary Rick Perry had granted six secret authorizations to companies to sell the know-how to the desert kingdom as part of a hoped-for broader deal on nuclear power.
Reuters said that the US was looking to build at least two nuclear plants and that Russia and South Korea were also vying for the project. An announcement on the winning bid was to be made later this year, it said.
Quoting a source that declined to be named, the agency said Perry’s approvals enable companies to conduct preliminary work on nuclear power before a deal is signed, but that no equipment that could be used in a nuclear plant would be delivered.
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Sharia Rick rides again.
LOL at Iran
Do note that if they didn’t get it from US, they would get it from Russia or South Korea. Or, likely, the French. So they’d get the tech anyway.
Would you rather the US government has the secret kill switches to turn off their reactors should Saudi get uppity? Or would you rather the Russians have it?
Why don’t we use it here? I know - enviro-wackos
We’re going to beat them all. We’re going to use bicycle generators. Green New Deal!
Let’s make it two ABWRs. I need additional work.
Balance of regional power.
you would think that SA had plenty of fossil fuels laying around, though.
What could go wrong???
Yeah, I don’t know about this. I don’t trust them.
Not much.
They’ll put them in the middle of the desert.
Worst case a few worker bees get torched.
Were that as cut and dried as you are flippantly attempting to assert, they would have had them decades ago.
Total credibility fail on your part.
Are you perhaps auditioning for Maddow’s job?
Give Muslims atomic technology or Russians Russians Russians?
Nope, just pointing out that on the surface, at this point in time they *will* get the technology anyway. That being the case I would rather we have the kill switch than someone else.
It is also an open secret that the Saudis already *have* nuclear weapons via Pakistan.
Nuts. Giving a terrorist state nuclear tech and training.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Saudi_Arabia
The Saudis already have nuclear weapons.
This is so incredibly stupid, it’s beyond belief.
Apparently the Saudi Barbarians have unregistered agents at high levels of the Trump Administration.
Oh, great. Al Qaeda would go nuclear soon.
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