David E. Sanger
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
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Well, Rachel, that's where this deal gets very vague.
It allows the Saudis to purchase the nuclear reactors, which will take years to build.
But it doesn't resolve the question of whether they are making their own fuel or whether they are buying it from someone else, including the United States.
Instead, it refers that to a committee to go study the question of whether or not it even makes economic sense for Saudi Arabia to make its own fuel.
It does.
Well, Saudi Arabia wanted a deal for the same reason all of its Arab neighbors want deals.
They all want nuclear power.
They're thinking about a future in which their economies are driven as much by data centers as petroleum.
They want to build modern societies.
They're conscious to some degree of the environmental effects.
And so you've seen many countries in the region turn to nuclear energy.
One of Saudi Arabia's most prosperous neighbors, the United Arab Emirates, decided back 20 years ago they wanted nuclear power plants, and they struck a deal with the United States in 2009.
And today they have four nuclear power plants that are up and running.
But to do that, they had to go reach a deal with the U.S.
that every country that's using nuclear technology of American origin has to go strike.
And that is what's called a 1-2-3 agreement.
Sounds strange.
It comes out of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
What it means essentially is if you are going to buy U.S.
technology, you have to agree to some U.S.
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