{"id":27312,"date":"2020-08-25T06:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=27312"},"modified":"2020-08-25T06:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:35:44","slug":"uae-connected-first-arab-nuclear-plant-to-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/uae-connected-first-arab-nuclear-plant-to-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE connected first Arab nuclear plant to power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has connected its Barakah nuclear power plant to the national grid in a first for the Arab world. The milestone follows the successful start-up of the plant&#8217;s first reactor at the end of last month and launches the UAE on the road to meeting 25 percent of its electricity needs from nuclear power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The plant on the Gulf coast west of Abu Dhabi had been due to go online in late 2017 but faced a number of delays that officials attributed to safety and regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE has substantial oil and gas reserves, but with a power-hungry population of 10 million it has made huge investments in developing clean alternatives, including solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barakah was built by a consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation at a cost of some $24.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 950 kilometres (nearly 600 miles) of 400 kV overhead power lines had to be built to link the plant to the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction work has already been completed on Unit 2, and Units 3 and 4 are respectively 93 percent and 86 percent complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE lies just across the Gulf from Iran which has a nuclear power plant of its own outside the coastal city of Bushehr, as well as a controversial uranium enrichment programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has connected its Barakah nuclear power plant to the national grid in a first for the Arab world. The milestone follows the successful start-up of the plant&#8217;s first reactor at the end of last month and launches the UAE on the road to meeting 25 percent of its electricity needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":27313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27314,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions\/27314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}