{"id":547398,"date":"2023-01-13T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=547398"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:32:48","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-seeks-to-use-own-uranium-for-nuclear-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-says-seeks-to-use-own-uranium-for-nuclear-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia says seeks to use own uranium for nuclear project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia plans to use its own uranium resources to develop the kingdom&#8217;s civilian nuclear programme, its energy minister said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter is trying to reduce its dependence on crude and announced in 2018 a plan to build 16 nuclear reactors over two decades. The project would cost $80 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent exploration activities revealed the presence of diverse sources of uranium in various locations,&#8221; the minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, told a minerals conference, according to state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kingdom intends to use its national uranium resources, including for joint projects with its partners,&#8221; the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia plans to use its own uranium resources to develop the kingdom&#8217;s civilian nuclear programme, its energy minister said on Wednesday. The world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter is trying to reduce its dependence on crude and announced in 2018 a plan to build 16 nuclear reactors over two decades. The project would cost $80 billion. &#8220;Recent exploration activities revealed the presence of diverse sources of uranium in various locations,&#8221; the minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, told a minerals conference, according to state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV. &#8220;The kingdom intends to use its national uranium resources, including for joint projects with its partners,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}