KUWAIT CITY, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Kuwait has decided to abandon civilian nuclear power production.
The decision was prompted by the March 11, 2011, nuclear disaster at the Daiichi nuclear power complex in Japan, which was devastated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and then hit by a tsunami, causing widespread destruction at the six reactor complex.
Accordingly, Kuwait is scrapping plans formulated last July to build four nuclear reactors by 2022.
Officials at the Kuwaiti government at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research made the announcement, Kyodo news agency reported Wednesday.
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