Sarah Smith
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3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, we should move on to another question that came in on WhatsApp from John in Yorkshire.
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And this is a very perceptive question, I think.
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He says, given that Saudi Arabia has pretty much unlimited sun, why does it need nuclear power?
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And of course, he's referring to the fact that there was a deal signed last week between the US and Saudi Arabia where American nuclear companies would supply the technology to Saudi Arabia to be able to buy, to build nuclear.
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civilian nuclear power facilities so that they would be able to generate electricity with it.
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But Donald Trump said absolutely not ever enrich uranium to weapons grade standards before he then, of course, changed his mind about it.
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But we'll get on to that in a moment.
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Firstly, Anthony, why, given that it's got so much sun, is Saudi Arabia not just going for solar power?
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That's fascinating.
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This was a really confusing story about this deal last week, though, because I didn't know it was in the works, I have to say.
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But suddenly on Wednesday, it was announced that it had been negotiated.
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It had been signed.
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The US Energy Secretary and the Saudi Arabian Energy Secretary signed this deal.
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We were told about five o'clock in the evening on Wednesday.
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And there were lots and lots of questions about it because it didn't seem to have some of the caveats in it that previous deals with, for instance, the United Arab Emirates had.
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It looked as though
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So within a few years, Saudi Arabia would be able to enrich uranium on their own soil, which nobody else has been allowed to do.
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And also that they were not having to accept really stringent international inspections that other countries have had to put up with as well from the IAEA to make sure that they were doing everything within the rules.
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So it seemed like they were getting, well, a particularly good, some would say lax deal that led people around the world to be saying, well, hang on.
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This really is one step closer to Saudi Arabia being able, if they wanted to, to develop a nuclear weapon.
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