UAE to Commission Arab World's First Commercial Nuclear Power Plant, an Industrial Info Market Brief

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued an operating license for Unit #01 at the country's 5.6-gigawatt (GW) Barakah Nuclear Power Plant. The plant will have four APR-1400 pressurized water reactors, which will drive four 1,400-megawatt (MW) steam turbine generator sets. Unit #01 is in the commissioning stage, and construction on Unit #02 is almost 90% complete. Once the four units are operational, the plant is estimated to generate 25% of the country's electricity, and will offset more than 20 million tonnes of greenhouse emissions per year.

Industrial Info is tracking 11 nuclear power projects, worth $66 billion, in the Middle East region.