Nuclear Power Plants Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/nuclear-power-plants/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:15:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://irannewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-iranlogo-32x32.png Nuclear Power Plants Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/nuclear-power-plants/ 32 32 US, India Commit to Building Six Nuclear Power Plants https://irannewsdaily.com/2019/03/us-india-commit-to-building-six-nuclear-power-plants/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2019/03/us-india-commit-to-building-six-nuclear-power-plants/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:52:58 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=90864 The agreement came after two days of talks in Washington. The United States under President Donald Trump has been looking to sell more energy products to India, the world’s third-biggest buyer of oil. The talks involved Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and Andrea Thompson, the US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. […]

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]]> The agreement came after two days of talks in Washington. The United States under President Donald Trump has been looking to sell more energy products to India, the world’s third-biggest buyer of oil.

The talks involved Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and Andrea Thompson, the US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.

 “They committed to strengthen bilateral security and civil nuclear cooperation, including the establishment of six US nuclear power plants in India,” the joint statement said, Reuters reported.

It gave no further details of the nuclear plant project.

The two countries have been discussing the supply of US nuclear reactors to energy-hungry India for more than a decade, but a longstanding obstacle has been the need to bring Indian liability rules in-line with international norms, which require the costs of any accident to be channeled to the operator rather than the maker of a nuclear power station.

Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse has been negotiating to build reactors in India for years, but progress has been slow, partly because of India’s nuclear liability legislation, and the project was thrown into doubt when Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy in 2017 after cost overruns on US reactors.

Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management bought Westinghouse from Toshiba in August 2018. Last April Westinghouse received strong support from US Energy Secretary Rick Perry for its India project, which envisaged the building of six AP1000 reactors in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

The agreement to build the reactors, announced in 2016, followed on from a US-India civil nuclear agreement signed in 2008.

India plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2024 to wean Asia’s third-largest economy off polluting fossil fuels.

Last October, India and Russia signed a pact to build six more nuclear reactors at a new site in India following summit talks between their leaders in New Delhi.

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]]> https://irannewsdaily.com/2019/03/us-india-commit-to-building-six-nuclear-power-plants/feed/ 0 Trump rushing to sell Saudi Arabia nuke technology: report https://irannewsdaily.com/2019/02/trump-rushing-to-sell-saudi-arabia-nuke-technology-report/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2019/02/trump-rushing-to-sell-saudi-arabia-nuke-technology-report/#respond Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:35:56 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=89839  A Democratic-led House panel has launched a probe of US nuclear plan in Saudi Arabia, raising concerns over the transfer of sensitive nuclear power technology to the kingdom. Key members of the Trump administration pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia in the months after the inauguration despite objections from members […]

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 A Democratic-led House panel has launched a probe of US nuclear plan in Saudi Arabia, raising concerns over the transfer of sensitive nuclear power technology to the kingdom.

Key members of the Trump administration pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia in the months after the inauguration despite objections from members of the National Security Council and other senior White House officials, the Washington Post cited a new report from congressional Democrats as saying.

The 24-page report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee is based on internal White House documents and the accounts of unnamed whistleblowers.

“The whistleblowers who came forward have warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes,” Representative Elijah Cummings, the Democrat chairman of the committee, said in a letter to the White House on Tuesday.

The report has risen concerns among security analysts who worry the technology would allow Saudi Arabia to produce nuclear weapons in the future, potentially contributing to an arms race in the Middle East.

It adds that the inquiry into the matter is “particularly critical because the Administration’s efforts to transfer sensitive US nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia appear to be ongoing”.

Saudi officials have recently voiced interest in buying nuclear power plants to ‘diversify the kingdom’s energy sources.’

Meanwhile, US President Trump met nuclear power developers at the White House on 12 February to discuss building plants in Middle Eastern nations, including Saudi Arabia.

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