Six Arab countries look to nuclear power: report

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/November/middleeast_November63.xml§ion=middleeast

DUBAI - At least six Arab countries are developing domestic nuclear power programmes to diversify energy sources, a Middle East economic magazine reported on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria have shown interest in developing nuclear power primarily for water desalination, the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) quoted Tomihiro Taniguchi, deputy director-general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as saying.

‘We held preliminary discussions with these governments. We will offer them help under our technical advisory programme to conduct a study for the power plants,’ he was quoted as saying, adding that the interest the four nations had shown was ‘at a tertiary stage’.

The United Arab Emirates and Tunisia have also shown interest

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1. They can save a lot of money on development if they happened

to catch the instructions on making a nuclear weapon (in Arabic no less) on the government's web site.

That the bush** administration, doing every damn thing they can to guarantee an unsafe America.

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2. dupe:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2572261