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Saudi Arabia to extract uranium for 'self-sufficient' nuclear program
Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium domestically as part of its nuclear power program and sees this as a step towards "self-sufficiency" in producing atomic fuel, a senior official said on Monday.
Extracting its own uranium also makes sense from an economic point of view, said Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi government agency tasked with the nuclear plans, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE).
In a speech at an international nuclear power conference in Abu Dhabi, he did not specify whether Saudi Arabia seeks to also enrich and reprocess uranium – steps in the fuel cycle which are especially sensitive as they can open up the possibility of military uses of the material.
The world's top oil exporter says it wants to tap atomic power for peaceful purposes only in order to diversify its energy supply and will award a construction contract for its first two nuclear reactors by the end of 2018.
Meanwhile, women will be allowed to attend sporting events at stadiums. And here's a message for the skeptics (editorial).
Also at Newsweek.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @10:01AM (1 child)
I am not aware of Americans massively buying homesteads in other countries. America is global battleground for power. Whichever group of humans (ethnicity, language, religion, race, ...) dominates it, dominates the world. Chinese people, even they already are the single most numerous group of the world, can't exert their proportional influence upon the rest of the planet without first taking over America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @10:27AM
Why buy a homestead in a shittier country when you can just buy up their entire economy and improve your homestead at home?
In a ~100 meter radius around my apartment there are two McDonald's', at least one Starbucks, one each of Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut, and Domino's Pizza, several 7-11s, and a Walmart. As you can see from me using the word "meter", I don't live anywhere close to the US :)