The House Oversight committee now chaired by Democrat Elijah Cummings issued an interim staff report after several whistleblowers came forward "to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the Atomic Energy Act," spearheaded by Jared Kushner, according to a press release by the House Oversight Committee.
The press release is in conjunction with the announcement of an investigation into the allegations.
The plan, which reportedly involved former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Kushner and Trump fundraiser Thomas Barrack, would see the development of "dozens of nuclear power plants" in a "Middle East Marshall Plan" through IP3 - a private US company which has "assembled a consortium of US companies to build nuclear plants in Saudi Arabia."
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Building nuclear power plants is hardly "the transfer of highly sensitive nuclear technology". It would, however, give the Saudis a leg up on starting their own weapons program.
Once upon a time, we were going to help Iran build nuclear power plants, too. I know because one of their future senior reactor operators was in my class at GE's Tulsa Training Center back in 1983. What he was doing there AFTER the start of the Iranian revolution has always mystified me. He must have been stranded here after the revolution, just like the Iranian Navy personnel who were training in New London, CT on how to operate the submarines we sold them.
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