Senior officials from the United Arab Emirates and United States yesterday signed an agreement to strengthen collaboration on civilian nuclear energy operations, the U.S. Energy Department announced (see GSN, Dec. 18, 2009).
Signed by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash, the “Implementing Arrangement” would “enhance cooperation on civil nuclear energy and nonproliferation and facilitate joint training, exchanges, and seminars in nuclear safeguards and nuclear management systems,” according to a DOE release.
Abu Dhabi and Washington last year completed a civilian nuclear cooperation deal that allows transfers of U.S. nuclear reactor technologies, fuel and other materials in exchange for a UAE commitment not to develop a weapons capability (U.S. Energy Department release, Feb. 24).





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