The United Arab Emirates has told the International Atomic Energy Agency it plans to have its first nuclear power plant ready in 2015, an IAEA official said yesterday. The news comes a day after Barack Obama, US president, approved a nuclear energy deal with the UAE worth potentially billions of dollars to US energy companies. Ali Boussaha, a director at the IAEA, told Reuters in Dubai: "I think this [2015] is optimistic because it generally takes 10-15 years to get people trained and infrastructure in place."