In a few weeks, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will switch on the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant. In this CNN interview prepared by John Defterios, Christof Rühl, member of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, comments on the drivers behind the UAE’s use of nuclear energy at a time when several countries are moving away from it.
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