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The nuclear program of Morocco includes plans to build nuclear reactors in the country to produce nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
Morocco has showed its ambition to get nuclear technology since the end of the 1990's. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990513/1999051362.html
the program will be developed in accordance with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). For this reason, Mohammed ElBaradei was invited to visit the country in December 2006.
In the last few years Morocco has faced a continuous series of dry seasons http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16857849
build civilian nuclear energy programmes Electricity consumption is increasing by 8 percent a year in Morocco, which has few of its own fossil fuel resources. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article624855.ece
Morocco also wanted to develop renewable energy capabilities, for example by building new wind farms near Tangier and Essaouira. http://www.businessinafrica.net/news/north_africa/525670.htm
civilian nuclear energy
1999 Concerned by a Moroccan project to build a nuclear energy sea water desalination unit in the southern town of Tan Tan, the Spanish autonomous government of the Canary Islands said it will offer Morocco an alternative wind power unit. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/991103/1999110341.html
[edit] See also
http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/linked/nuclearMorocco/Moroccoportfolio.html
http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/aws/eedrb/data/MA.html
