Business Extra: Enec’s Mohamed Al Hammadi on UAE’s nuclear energy ambitions

The CEO provides an update on operations at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant less than a week after the first reactor powered on

On this special edition of Business Extra, Kelsey Warner talks to Mohamed Al Hammadi, chief executive of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, about the recently powered on Barakah nuclear power station and the UAE's energy ambitions. In this episode

• On the moment Unit 1 powered on (0m 47s)
• How nuclear energy fits into the UAE's Energy Strategy 2050 (3m 41s)
• When Units 2, 3 and 4 will be ready (6m 23s)
• Building a local team and community in Al Dhafra (8m 47s)
• Lessons in leadership during Covid-19 (13m 39s)
• Future of nuclear energy (16m 55s)

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