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Japan wanting to market nuclear technology to United Arab Emirates

Japan teaches UAE lessons learnt from Fukushima nuclear disaster Caline Malek, The National UAE 11 July 16, ABU DHABI // Japan is offering experts and technology to the UAE to increase its nuclear energy cooperation with the country and share lessons learnt from the Fukushima disaster.

Professors with vast experience of the industry are being flown in to educate the Emiratis who aim to be the future of the country’s growing nuclear energy sector, while Japanese companies have provided essential parts for the UAE’s first nuclear power plant…….

Lectures are part of wider nuclear cooperation between the countries through an agreement signed in 2014 on the peaceful use of nuclear energy…..

Japan will also help to develop human resources in nuclear science and engineering.

“Japanese experts come to universities in the UAE to teach the most updated science and technology,” Mr Fujiki said…….

cooperation is based on the idea that nuclear energy should be used for the production of desalinated water to be used by the industry,” Mr Fujiki said. “A study is being carried out on the feasibility of this by a Japanese institute and the UAE.”

Japan has extensive nuclear experience and a well-developed industry, said Hamad Alkaabi, UAE ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency…..

Japan has one of the largest nuclear industries, dating back to the 1950s.

“It has a large body of knowledge and expertise in nuclear and a large corps of experts, scientists, engineers, businessmen, critics and journalists who have looked after the nuclear business,” said Nobuyasu Abe, vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission…..http://www.thenational.ae/uae/government/japan-teaches-uae-lessons-learnt-from-fukushima-nuclear-disaster

July 10, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized