Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States intend to enhance cooperation between the two countries, in accordance with their respective national laws, through the Partnership Framework for Clean Energy Development.

The partnership framework for Clean Energy Development between the two countries has identified the cooperation fields in which KSA and the US will work to enhance, in order to achieve their ambitions in spreading clean energy and climate action.

The Umm Al-Qura newspaper has published the details of partnership framework and the potential cooperation fields.

The partnership framework stipulated in establishing a cooperation in clean energy field, as the two parties intend to work together to determine the cooperation fields in clean energy.

This cooperation would strengthen the common interests and strategic goals of each participant, and also to organize cooperation in clean energy field to study innovation, development, financing, and establishing infrastructure for clean energy in KSA and the US.

The partnership has identified several potential cooperation fields between the two countries in terms of civil nuclear energy and uranium, of which are the cooperation in basic researches, and development in the field of civil nuclear energy.

The cooperation fields include the exchange of experiences in various aspects, such as the field of developing advanced reactor technologies.

Moreover, exchanging experiences in the field of safe and proper disposal of nuclear waste; medical and agricultural applications; cooperation in research and development in the uranium exploration field; cooperation in uranium mining and processing; and various other fields of civil nuclear energy and uranium development.