This one will hardly get any media attention, I predict. For all the hullabaloo of Iran going nuclear, I’d say Egypt doing the same is equally bad.
Egypt will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant at al-Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast at a cost of between 1.5 and two billion dollars, Yunes told the daily.
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On Thursday, Francis J. Ricciardone, the US ambassador to Egypt, said that the United States would have no objection to Egypt’s peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Speaking to Egypt’s al-Mehwar television, Ricciardone said that “the United States encourages the peaceful use of nuclear power for civilian purposes throughout the world”.
There’s no proof that Iran is going to build nukes, and in fact they’ve said they won’t multiple times and the IAEA is showing zero evidence that they’re trying to. Egypt is an equally fundamentalist regime (you can be arrested for speaking out against Islam), and unlike Iran they are considered a major source of terrorism as I’ve written before.
[tags]egypt, iran, nuclear[/tags]
