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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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 01 2017, @04:54PM (1 child)
I use the word unpredictable. You want to be unpredictable. And somebody recently said I made a great business deal. And the person on the other side was interviewed by a newspaper. And how did Trump do this? And they said, he's so unpredictable. And I didn't know if he meant it positively or negative. It turned out he meant it positively. I’m never going to rule anything out, because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe we would use it, OK? You know, we need unpredictability. The enemy, we have enemies. ISIS is a enemy. And it’s an enemy not wearing uniforms, so we don’t even know who the enemy is. You know, in the old days we’d have Japan or we’d have Germany or we’d have some country. And they would have soldiers. They would be dressed, we’d be dressed, we’d know who we were fighting. We don’t know who these people are. The fact is, we need unpredictability. I frankly don’t want the enemy to know how I’m thinking.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:44AM
Gotta try harder, there was some sense in there.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek