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Japan and the United Arab Emirates - A Nuclear Family?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David Adam Stott
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Concerned about the sustainability of its oil and gas reserves, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been taking steps to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on natural resource exports. The most eye-catching of these changes has been the rapid development of Dubai as a finance, services and travel hub in the last decade. A further plank in this strategy has recently been revealed: UAE plans to embark upon a nuclear power programme. Emphasising transparency and close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it hopes to have the first of its reactors on line by 2017.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 33 , August 2009 , e5
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