In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Japanese coast last week, the government of the UAE is watching very closely as the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Since the UAE is beginning to develop a nuclear energy program, this crisis presents an unfortunate, yet very valuable learning experience as to how to bolster the safety of the world's nuclear plants.
Ambassador Hamad Al Kaabi, the UAE's permanent representative to the IAEA, made some comments regarding the possible lessons learned and how the UAE will move forward in the construction of their own nuclear power plants. According to Al Kaabi, it will take some time before effective conclusions can be met, as the crisis is still unfolding. However, with the UAE government set to build 4 nuclear power plants around the various emirates, the first of which should provide Abu Dhabi with power by 2017, and to have those plants produce 25% of the country's energy by 2020, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) are going to do everything necessary to ensure that the situation in Japan doesn't repeat itself in the UAE.
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