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RIYADH: UAE's Nawah Energy Co. has successfully started Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant, located in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra Region, its parent company the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation announced on Thursday. The launch has been achieved a year after the start-up of Unit 2, with the next key milestone being the connection of Unit 3 to the national electricity
The third unit of the Barakah nuclear power plant (NPP), the first such facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Arab world, is ready to begin
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The start of commercial operations at Barakah-1 comes a month after FANR issued a license to operate for Barakah-2, located at the same site.
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp (ENEC), reached 100% power capacity in December at its 1.4 GW Barakah-1 unit, after being connected to the power grid in August.
The four nuclear units will eventually contribute up to 25% of the UAE s power generation needs.
Nawah Energy Co the operations and maintenance unit of ENEC said on March 23 it had completed the loading of fuel in Barakah-2 and would commence testing its systems, before the reactor s start-up.