Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors in face of widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest, Bloomberg reported on 8 June. Despite being OPEC’s second biggest oil producer, Iraq is suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in ageing plants, and needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building NPPs could help to close the supply gap.

• Rosatom
• Russia
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• France
• Uranium
• Iran
• United Arab Emirates
• Italy
• Gaseous diffusion
• Weapon of mass destruction
• Israel
• Weapons-grade nuclear material
• Iraq
• OPEC
• Gulf War
• Baghdad
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Saddam Hussein
• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Iraq Survey Group

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-looks-to-revive-its-nuclear-programme-8822664

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Ambitions for nuclear have been scaled back as countries have reviewed policies following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi, but capacity is still projected to rise, led by China, Korea, India and Russia, according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2012 report.

• China
• Russia
• United States
• Australia
• India
• International Energy Agency
• OECD
• Biofuel
• OPEC

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-prospects-dimmed-but-still-growing-says-iea

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