The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation is not ready to give the company that will run the country’s first nuclear plant a license to operate, a senior official said on Wednesday. The $24.4 billion Barakah power plant is the world’s largest nuclear project under construction and will be the first in the Arab world. The plant, with four reactors, has total capacity of 5,600 megawatts (MW) of electricity. The operator, Nawah, has still to fulfil regulatory requirements, Christer Viktorsson, director-general of the nuclear body, told a news conference. “We are continuing to review the application of the operator to start Barakah,” he said. “We are not ready to give the operating license yet, we are doing (a) review of the documents.”
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