UAE signs law to give up uranium enrichment

Mon Oct 5, 2009

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has passed a law which would turn the country into a potential permanent market for nuclear fuel suppliers.

The UAE president issued a decree Sunday to enforce the law which would ban any uranium enrichment activity in the country, AFP reported on Monday.

"The government of the UAE has made a commitment in its nuclear energy law to forgo domestic enrichment and reprocessing of nuclear materials," said Hamad al-Kaabi, the UAE envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"The UAE believes that it can achieve the necessary degree of fuel security through reliance upon mature and diverse international fuel services market without resort to domestic enrichment or reprocessing."

The UAE has invited Western countries to construct the country's first nuclear power plant to reduce the nation's dependence on hydrocarbons. Under the new law, it has to rely on nuclear fuel suppliers to provide it with uranium required to run its future plants.

The UAE has already set up the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation which oversees nuclear security related issue in the Persian Gulf country.

Source: PressTV.
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