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What Saudi Arabia wanted is the ability to mine and enrich its own uranium for civilian purposes. Biden wanted instead a deal like what the UAE got where it buys the fuel ready.
Saudi Arabia has stressed that it wants its program to be civilian-only and is more than willing to have UN inspectors inspect it. The US Congress wouldn’t allow such a thing because Saudi Arabia hasn’t normalized with Israel and even if it does who to say that the monarchy will never be replaced a la Iran? UAE despite normalization, Israel won’t even permit it to acquire the F-35.
There is zero economic value to nuclear energy even in areas without abundant sunshine or oil and gas. There is only weapons value for uranium enrichment operations out of "face value" nuclear energy sites. KSA would not do favours for energy technology access.
I disagree with you on nuclear energy, it is viable, reliable and affordable.
Saudi Arabia can get the technology from elsewhere, China is probably further ahead now than the US. The problem is who is going to stop the US or Israel from targeting them?
Anyways we are going off topic and I don’t share your suspicions of Saudi Arabia not when worse global actors (Israel) already have civilian and military nuclear capabilities.
Renewables are far cheaper, easier and faster to roll out than any fission reactor design out there today.