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At the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) in Abu Dhabi, dozens of employees are reviewing the 15,000-page application for the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, scheduled to launch next year. The Barakah plant will make the UAE the first Gulf state to have a peaceful nuclear energy program.
By 2020, the UAE Peaceful Nuclear Energy Program will be in full gear, with four nuclear reactors providing nearly 25 percent of the UAE’s electricity needs, according to the state-run Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC). The first reactor was initially set to start generating power in 2017, but ENEC recently announced its inauguration would be delayed until 2018 for technical reasons.
“We received the application for reactor one in March 2015 and since then we have been studying it,” said Christer Viktorsson, director general at the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation which oversees regulation and licensing for the UAE’s nuclear programme.
Viktorsson says the federal authority has sent ENEC more than 1,000 questions seeking documented answers since 2015 — and the licensing process is not yet over. “It’s a massive application,” he told AFP. “There are a few areas where we still have questions.”
“We have to verify… that they have security plans, like emergency plans, and if an accident happens they can deal with it.” In the FANR offices, 300 kilometres west of the Barakah plant, Emirati and foreign employees are buried in licensing paperwork in a bid to meet next year’s deadline.
ENEC in April reported construction of the plant’s four units had been 80 percent completed, with reactor one at 95 percent completion. Operations teams and contingency plans are also in place, according to ENEC, and Viktorsson says he has “no doubt” that the company will meet the 2018 launch date.
Much of the construction of the $25-billion (21.2-billion-euro) Barakah plant has been outsourced to the Korea Electric Power Corporation, the largest electric utility in South Korea, which won the project over French multinational group AREVA. “We don’t think the nuclear power plant will cause any problems in the region,” said a South Korean diplomat in the UAE, requesting anonymity.
“The Barakah nuclear power plant will play an important role for the UAE’s economic development and will be a role model for the other Arab countries, proving that nuclear power can be used for peaceful purposes.”
“Our country is and will remain a forerunner,” a UAE official said on condition of anonymity. UAE ally Saudi Arabia has also said it aims to develop a peaceful nuclear energy programme.

Source: AFP

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