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FBaggins

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Mon Feb 27, 2012, 04:10 PM Feb 2012

New countries go nuclear despite Fukushima: UN official

At least five countries will start work on their first nuclear reactors this year despite the jolt to international confidence caused by the Fukushima disaster, a top UN nuclear official said on Friday.

'We expect that this year Vietnam, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Belarus will start building their first nuclear power plants,' Mr Kwaku Aning, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told a forum in New York.

He said Jordan and Saudi Arabia could follow in 2013. About 60 countries approached the international agency in the past year about starting nuclear programmes, Geoffrey Shaw, the IAEA director general at the United Nations, told the same forum.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_770616.html

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