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France signs nuclear deal with Jordan
Amman (AFP) May 30, 2008 France signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with energy-poor Jordan on Friday during a visit by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. The accord set the framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation between the two countries. Kouchner and Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Bashir also signed a second agreement on military and economic cooperation. Jordan, home to around six million people, has already reached a nuclear cooperation deal with the United States and hopes to approve similar pacts with Canada, China and South Korea. With few natural resources to rely on, the tiny desert nation is seeking to find alternative energy sources and legislation was adopted in 2007 allowing the use of nuclear power to generate electricity and desalinate water. The country, which imports around 95 percent of its energy needs, aims to bring its first nuclear plant on line by 2015. Officials have said they hope nuclear power will supply 30 percent of energy production by 2030. Jordanian officials have said that French nuclear giant Areva could extract around 130,000 tonnes of uranium from the country's 1.2 billion tonnes of phosphate reserves and build a nuclear reactor. Jordan is the latest Sunni Arab country, including Egypt and pro-Western Gulf states, to announce plans for nuclear power programmes in the face of Shiite Iran's controversial atomic drive. In addition to its lack of energy, the kingdom is one of the the most water-deprived countries on the planet, with a deficit of more than 500 million cubic metres (more than 17 billion cubic feet) a year. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Albania may host nuclear power plant for Italy: report
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