UAE: Barakah nuclear power plant gets Unit 2 operating licence
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Operating licence has been issued to Nawah for 60 years.
The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) on Tuesday granted the operating licence for Unit 2 of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, located in Abu Dhabi’s Al Dhafra region. The announcement on the commercial operations of the plant’s Unit 1 is also expected this month, a top official confirmed.
The operating licence, which has been issued for 60 years, authorises the plant operator Nawah Energy Company to commission and operate Unit 2, said Hamad Al Kaabi, the UAE’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and deputy chairman of the FANR.
09 March 2021
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The UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) has today issued an operating licence for Barakah unit 2 to the plant s operator, Nawah Energy Company (Nawah). Nawah will now begin the commissioning of the Arab world s second nuclear power reactor.
FANR announced the licence in an online event (L-R: Sara Al Saadi, director of FANR s Nuclear Security Department; Al Kaabi; FANR Director General Christer Viktorsson)
Hamad Al Kaabi, the UAE s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the deputy chairman of FANR, said fuel loading could start as early as today or tomorrow. Speaking during FANR s online announcement this morning, he said a testing programme would follow as the plant gradually increases power and is connected to the grid, before it is formally declared to be in commercial operation around a year from now.
The UAE’s independent nuclear watchdog, The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), has issued the operating licence for Unit 2 of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant to Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation’s key subsidiary Nawah.
The Arab world's first nuclear power plant has received an operating license for its second unit, and the facility's timeline still calls for commercial