Laurence Norman
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first heard Nov 2024
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So my colleagues, Michael Gordon and Stephen Kedden,
are reporting that essentially the U.S.
will help Saudi Arabia set up a civilian nuclear program and that will generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for key U.S.
companies like Westinghouse.
And the idea is that it will help the Saudis sell more oil and produce nuclear energy
because of civilian domestic purposes and bind the two countries further together.
Well, that is the key distinction.
And it's obviously the intention of the US to only make this a civilian program.
The question is, how do you control that?
Once you give Saudi Arabia certain technologies, and once you allow them to do certain things, can you be sure that over time,
They will not use it for military purposes.
The critical element of this deal is that there is going to be a
two-year review that the US and Saudis do, looking at whether Saudi Arabia will be able to enrich uranium at home on its own.
Once it can do that, it has a pathway not only for civilian energy, but also for military use of enriched uranium.
And so the US and the Saudis are going to have a lot of talking to do in the next two years to figure out what the future will hold and how Saudi can be kept to its commitment that this is only a civilian program.
You are bound to get a
serious concerns about what the Saudi intentions are, serious concerns about how this would impact on the Iranian negotiations, and serious concerns that countries like Turkey
and Egypt may take this idea and move ahead.
There will also be concern that Saudi Arabia is saying it won't sign the additional protocol.
That really is a critical commitment for countries because it allows inspectors to go not just to their nuclear facilities, but elsewhere, universities, labs, etc., where there could be, in the future, some kind of nuclear weapons work or studies.
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