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Canada, Jordan sign nuclear co-operation deal
Amman (AFP) June 28, 2008 Canada has signed a nuclear energy cooperation memorandum with Jordan, the official Petra news agency said on Saturday, as Amman struggles to find alternate power sources. "Canada will help Jordan prepare economic feasibility studies to examine the possibility of introducing the CANDU energy reactor into Jordan," Khaled Tukan, head of the Jordanian atomic energy commission, was quoted as saying. The CANDU nuclear reactor is a pressurised heavy water reactor that uses non-enriched uranium as fuel. Tukan said Jordan was in talks with three international firms that produce uranium and hopes to produce nuclear power by 2016. The kingdom, which imports 95 percent of its energy needs, will sign a full agreement on nuclear cooperation with Canada by the end of the year. Parliament adopted a law in 2007 endorsing the use of nuclear power to produce electricity and desalinate water. Jordan has already reached nuclear deals with the United States and France and hopes for nuclear power to constitute 30 percent of energy production by 2030. The announcement comes as the chairwoman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Lady Barbara Thomas Judge, arrives in Amman on a two-day visit to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement. Amman has said it plans to extract around 130,000 tonnes of uranium from the country's 1.2 billion tonnes of phosphate reserves and build a nuclear reactor, with the help of a global partner. Jordan, one of the world's most water-deprived countries, is the latest Sunni Arab country to announce plans for peaceful nuclear power programmes in the face of Shiite Iran's controversial atomic drive. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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