South Korea and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on comprehensive cooperation in nuclear research and development on the sidelines of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna on 17 September. They agreed to collaborate on the commercialisation of Korea’s SMART small modular reactor and to work together to licence and construct the first SMART unit in Saudi Arabia.

• International Atomic Energy Agency
• South Korea
• Small modular reactor
• Research and development
• Saudi Arabia
• Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newssouth-korea-and-saudi-arabia-to-co-operate-on-smart-smr-7421502

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