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The AED 8.89bn ($2.42bn) refinancing of the Barakah NPP project in Abu Dhabi, announced in 2023, has been recognised as a Green Loan Facility. The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said this “underscores nuclear energy’s major contribution to powering the UAE’s green economy and energy transition strategy through clean, carbon emissions-free electricity”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbarakah-refinancing-recognised-as-green-loan-11604172
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced that its operating and maintenance subsidiary, Nawah Energy Company, has successfully launched the reactor of unit 4 of the Barakah NPP in the Al Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi. This marks its initial production of heat through nuclear fission, used for generating electricity by turning a turbine with steam. In the coming weeks, unit 4 will be linked to the national electricity grid and will gradually increase its power output to full capacity.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenec-announces-start-up-of-barakah-4-11572135
South Korea-supplied unit will undergo testing before commercial operation
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 02 March 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/fourth-and-final-reactor-starts-up-at-uae-nuclear-power-station-3-5-2024
Move a ‘significant step’ in bringing Flex nuclear plant to market
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uae-s-enec-signs-agreement-with-uk-nuclear-company-moltexflex-12-1-2023
At the 28th Conference of the Parties to the original 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), 22 countries signed a declaration supporting tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The document was signed by the heads of state, or senior officials, from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA. China and Russia did not sign, although they have the world’s fastest growing and most ambitious nuclear power programmes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-22-countries-target-tripling-global-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050-11347824
Deal, signed at Cop28, ‘opens door to future collaboration’
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uae-and-kazakhstan-sign-uranium-fuel-supply-contract-for-nuclear-station-12-2-2023
The Net Zero Nuclear Industry Pledge, which commits to a goal of at least tripling nuclear capacity by 2050, was unveiled at an event at the UN's COP28 climate change summit taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Net-Zero-Nuclear-Industry-Pledge-backed-by-120-com
Agreement will enable exploration of technical design and commercial viability
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/bill-gates-terrapower-signs-natrium-mou-with-uae-12-1-2023
Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom has signed its first commercial uranium fuel supply contract with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), for the United Arab Emirates' Barakah nuclear power plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ENEC-and-Kazatomprom-sign-commerical-uranium-contr
Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Sunday, 03 December 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ministerial-declaration-puts-nuclear-at-heart-of-c