Lost in Dreams…

Coming clean on nuclear energy

Gulf News Published: May 16, 2008, 23:39

It is good to be cautious. And it is caution the UAE is demonstrating as it goes about developing its nascent nuclear energy programme. Nuclear energy is seen as being a significant supplier to the UAE for domestic purposes in the future. So it is only right that the nation is approaching the installation, technology and training of nuclear power with great care. The UAE has already signed agreements with the US and France, two leading suppliers of nuclear energy, to advise it on the installations. Now an agreement has been signed with the UK, also a major supplier of nuclear energy for many years.

With the US, France and the UK supplying technical know-how, the UAE can be sure it is getting some of the best advice available. Furthermore, by disclosing who they are co-operating with, the UAE is showing full transparency of the project, as it said it would.

The above article was the editorial of Gulf News today. If I show this article to somebody without telling that this was the editorial of the day, I bet their first guess would be that this was the Government publication. I fail to see the reasoning of Gulf News about supporting a nuclear program and the worst case is talking about the merits in an editorial. I assume US & UK will be helping in “training of nuclear power” to UAE (whatever it is supposed to be). I am no Oxford pundit but still that term look way off to be used in an editorial.

Source : Gulf News