Re:Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power
by adventured on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:56AM
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Your post is pretending that China and Russia do not exist.
There is no scenario where Saudi Arabia doesn't get whatever nuclear power infrastructure they're after. Nothing will prevent that. China isn't going to have any problems building Saudi Arabia's nuclear power infrastructure, they'll be thrilled to do it. The same is true of Russia. There is nothing the US can reasonably do to stop China or Russia from building nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.
Ok, there's one exceptionally dumb broad option: war with the non-US supplier (eg China or Russia), or fundamentally destroy Saudi Arabia as we know it today and kill millions of people to shut down all industrial progress there to prevent any nation from ever attempting to build nuclear power there.
Here's the reality of the near future: you are going to have to accept a bunch of bad actors are going to have access to various nuclear technology. It's only going to spread faster and faster.
There is no scenario where Saudi Arabia doesn't get whatever nuclear power infrastructure they're after. Nothing will prevent that. China isn't going to have any problems building Saudi Arabia's nuclear power infrastructure, they'll be thrilled to do it. The same is true of Russia. There is nothing the US can reasonably do to stop China or Russia from building nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.
Ok, there's one exceptionally dumb broad option: war with the non-US supplier (eg China or Russia), or fundamentally destroy Saudi Arabia as we know it today and kill millions of people to shut down all industrial progress there to prevent any nation from ever attempting to build nuclear power there.
Here's the reality of the near future: you are going to have to accept a bunch of bad actors are going to have access to various nuclear technology. It's only going to spread faster and faster.