First Arab-world's nuclear power plant in UAE.

 

UAE: On 7th April 2021, the first nuclear power plant of the United Arab Emirates, started commercial operations. It's named Barakah Nuclear Power Plant. The plant located in the Abu Dhabi emirate. It is the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world.

 

The plant was built by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). The plant's total cost was $24.4 billion. It has 4 units. The  Construction started in 2012; delays because of the non-existence of nuclear industry in Arab nations. Now 1 unit completed, that started commercial operations now. 3 other units are under construction.

 

In August 2020 the Unit 1 connected to UAE’s national power grid. December 2020  Unit 1 reached 100% reactor power capacity, during unit 1 testing in March 2021, Unit 2 got the operating license. Now Commercial operations now, from Unit 1.

 

When the construction finishes it, Will, supply around 25% of UAE’s peak demand,  The unit Will diversify UAE’s energy sources (so far highly dependent on fossil fuels). The nuclear plant Will help in cutting down carbon emissions. Nuclear power plants have the highest power generation capacity of all non-carbon emitting processes. 

 

The main problem of the Nuclear power plant is It needs a Long construction time The construction is very expensive. It's not cheap like solar or wind. Another problem is the besides of nuclear plant some country makes nuclear bombs and weapons. But every coin has two sides -

 

In the book The uninhabited earth, The story of future book the author said

 

“That we remember the names of power-plant disasters is a sign of just how scarred we feel by them: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. But the scars are almost phantom ones, given the casualty numbers. The death toll of the incident at Three Mile Island is in some dispute, as many activists believe the true impact of radiation was suppressed—perhaps a reasonable belief since the official account insists on no adverse health impacts at all. But the most pedigreed research suggests the meltdown increased cancer risk, within a ten-mile radius, by less than one-tenth of 1 percent.”

 

“For Chernobyl, the official death count is 47, though some estimates run higher—even as high as 4,000. For Fukushima, according to a United Nations report, “no discernible increased incidence of radiation-related health effects are expected among exposed members of the public or their descendants.” Had none of the 100,000 living in the evacuation zone ever left, perhaps a few hundred might have ultimately died of cancers related to the radiation. Any number of dead is a tragedy, but more than 10,000 people die each day, globally, from the small-particulate pollution produced by burning carbon. This is not even broaching the subject of warming and its impacts. A rule change to pollution standards for coal producers, proposed by Trump’s EPA in 2018, would kill an additional 1,400 Americans annually, the agency itself acknowledged; globally, pollution kills as many as nine million each year.”