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IAEA’s Rafael Grossi in Iraq to market nuclear reactors

IAEA to Help Iraq Develop Peaceful Nuclear Program, Agency Head Says ,  https://english.aawsat.com/business/4917976-iaea-help-iraq-develop-peaceful-nuclear-program-agency-head-says%C2%A0 20 Mar 24

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad on Monday as part of a visit to help the country develop a peaceful nuclear program.

“We have discussed several projects in Iraq, including building a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes,” Iraqi Education Minister Naim al-Aboudi told reporters following a meeting between Grossi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

Grossi said that a team of Iraqi experts would visit the agency’s headquarters in Vienna in a few days to hold meetings to “set out a road map for the Iraqi peaceful nuclear program” amid growing interest in nuclear energy in the region.

“We see that in the (United Arab) Emirates, we see that in Egypt … and of course we should see it here in Iraq,” Grossi told reporters.

Iraq in the past had three nuclear reactors in Tuwaitha, its main nuclear research site, south of Baghdad. One was destroyed by an Israeli air raid in 1981 and the two others by US warplanes in the 1991 Gulf war that followed Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

“Definitely, turning the page on this complex past is of the essence and we’re doing just that,” Grossi said.

March 22, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iraq, marketing