Seoul, which just finished building its fourth power reactor for the United Arab Emirates, is the odds-on favorite to win. Besides offering a quality product and reliable financing unencumbered with political strings, South Korean nuclear cooperation, though, comes with an additional advantage: It explicitly permits Riyadh to enrich any uranium it might receive from Seoul up to 20 percent without securing any additional permissions.
Highly enriched uranium is defined as uranium ore that contains U at levels of 20 percent or higher. The amount of effort it takes to produce 20 percent enriched uranium represents nearly 90 percent of the effort needed to produce weapons-grade uranium. UAE law currently prohibits it from enriching uranium or chemically separating plutonium from spent fuel. Washington insisted on this as a condition for the Emirates buying South Korean and US nuclear technology.
South Korea also is the only government to provide reliable, generous financing, free of political stringsโsomething neither Moscow nor Beijing can credibly claim. Do the Saudis want a bomb? These are steps toward enriching uraniumโand a possible nuclear weapon program. To read the full article click here. That should set off alarm bells. Share via: More. Advanced Search. Type and press Enter to search. Share via. X Twitter. Copy Link. Powered by Social Snap.
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