Agence France-Presse: The United Arab Emirates has awarded a 20.4-billion-dollar contract to build four nuclear power plants to a South Korean-led consortium, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation said Sunday. The UAE “has determined that the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) team is best equipped to fulfill the government’s partnership requirements in this ambitious programme,” ENEC chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak said in a statement. The deal is expected to lead to additional contracts worth …