If this report is true, it’s got to be one of the stupidest ideas of the last hundred years: US to help Yemen go nuclear: Saleh.

Yemen will go nuclear to make up for the shortcomings in the electricity supply in the country, said President Ali Abdullah Saleh Monday evening, at his annual Iftar reception held at the Republican Palace. Necessary studies and research are well underway for the adoption of such a technology.

“We will generate power through nuclear energy in cooperation with the United States and Canada,” Saleh said. “In the first stage, we plan to generate 20,000 megawatts,” he said to his guests, who included senior government officials, religious scholars, members of the business community, tribal sheikhs, social figures, media, and civil society organizations. “This is no longer an campaign promise. It is a serious and new speech.”