Washington has secretly given the go-ahead to several companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports , citing a document it had obtained. The document featured an approval of six authorizations for nuclear power tech by Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The request for secrecy came from the companies that won the authorizations, according to the document, authored by officials from the National Nuclear Security Administrations. “In this case, each of the companies which received a specific authorization for (Saudi Arabia) have provided us written request that their authorization be withheld from public release,” it said. An official from the Department of Energy told Reuters the reason for the secrecy was that the requests from the companies to partake in the deal with Saudi Arabia contained proprietary information. The information comes on the heels of a report that the Government Accountability Office had initiated a probe into […]