Abu Dhabi: The UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) has licenced the first batch of National Senior Reactor Operators, SROs, and Reactor Operators, ROs.
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Shaikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received the group which included 22 Emirati engineers and expressed confidence in their ability to make the plant a model for all new nuclear energy projects around the world.
FANR, the UAE nuclear regulation authority, certified in July the first group of 15 UAE SROs and ROs, including two women, at Nawah Energy Company, the operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation. A second group of seven Emirati engineers was later certified, according to WAM.