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UAE seeks Japan's help to develop nuclear plants
Tokyo - Dec 6, 2008 (WAM) - The UAE will hold talks with the Japanese government and reactor makers such as Hitachi and Toshiba this month as it seeks Japan's help to develop nuclear power plants according to a report by Bloomberg.
Japan, the world's third-biggest atomic generator, may help the UAE by offering services to develop legal frameworks and educate workers on atomic power, said government officials who declined to be named as negotiations haven't been completed.
A delegation headed by Mohammad Al Hammadi, president of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp, arrived late Thursday for a week-long visit to hold talks with government officials on areas of cooperation.
"Japan is behind others such as France in terms of making approaches but has built up a high level of technology for reactors that the UAE wants," Yuzuru Aizawa, an analyst at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan's biggest energy research body, said.
Japan is poised to become the fourth country to sign atomic-power pacts with the UAE after France, the US and the UK inked agreements this year.
Japan, the biggest buyer of oil from the UAE, imported about 368 million barrels from the country last year.
Emirates Nuclear Energy has not made any decision on a prime contractor, it said on its website. The agency chose in October CH2H Hill Cos Ltd, a US consulting firm, to help implement a civil nuclear power programme under a 10-year contract.
Electricity demand in the UAE is expected to triple to 41,000 megawatts by 2020, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, said in April.
Total SA, Suez SA and Areva SA have shown interest in building reactors in the UAE with "local partners", they said in a joint statement in January.
Contracts may be worth as much as four billion euros (US$5.1 billion), a French government spokesman said last January 11.
"The UAE is expecting to get access to Japanese technology," Aizawa said. – Bloomberg
Japan, the world's third-biggest atomic generator, may help the UAE by offering services to develop legal frameworks and educate workers on atomic power, said government officials who declined to be named as negotiations haven't been completed.
A delegation headed by Mohammad Al Hammadi, president of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp, arrived late Thursday for a week-long visit to hold talks with government officials on areas of cooperation.
"Japan is behind others such as France in terms of making approaches but has built up a high level of technology for reactors that the UAE wants," Yuzuru Aizawa, an analyst at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan's biggest energy research body, said.
Japan is poised to become the fourth country to sign atomic-power pacts with the UAE after France, the US and the UK inked agreements this year.
Japan, the biggest buyer of oil from the UAE, imported about 368 million barrels from the country last year.
Emirates Nuclear Energy has not made any decision on a prime contractor, it said on its website. The agency chose in October CH2H Hill Cos Ltd, a US consulting firm, to help implement a civil nuclear power programme under a 10-year contract.
Electricity demand in the UAE is expected to triple to 41,000 megawatts by 2020, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, said in April.
Total SA, Suez SA and Areva SA have shown interest in building reactors in the UAE with "local partners", they said in a joint statement in January.
Contracts may be worth as much as four billion euros (US$5.1 billion), a French government spokesman said last January 11.
"The UAE is expecting to get access to Japanese technology," Aizawa said. – Bloomberg
