US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the launch of a joint committee to develop a strategy for creating advanced nuclear reactors, which some claim is a plot to drive Russia out of the nuclear energy market.
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past gas centrifuges for uranium isotope separation at the Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant in Novouralsk, Russia, December 12, 2019 © Sputnik / Pavel Lisitsyn
The US and the UK will launch a joint committee to develop a strategy for creating advanced nuclear reactors by 2030, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Thursday. The initiative is part of the Anglo-American economic partnership.
Sunak, who is visiting Washington, said the new “civil nuclear partnership” aims to “support the critical clean energy industry, our net zero ambitions and to keep Russia out of the global civil nuclear power market.”
The White House offered more details in a press release about the New Atlantic D...