Saudi not eyeing nuclear power, says oil adviser

25 January 2010

Saudi Arabia is not considering developing an atomic energy program and will focus on other sources of renewable energy, Bloomberg has reported. Mohammed Salim al-Sabban, who heads Saudi's UN climate negotiations, said the kingdom is ruling out nuclear energy for now and is joining the International Renewable Energy Agency to focus on solar energy as a renewable.

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