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Media In / Amman 26 May 2018
Jordan and the Russian Federation signed an agreement to “enable” the two sides to carry out a joint feasibility study to build a Russian nuclear reactor of the type of compact reactors integrated into the Kingdom.
The Jordanian Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement on Saturday that the agreement signed by the agency with Russia’s Russian company Ross Atom Overseas on May 24 will enable the two sides to carry out a feasibility study to build a Russian reactor type of compact reactors compact in Jordan.
According to the statement, the two sides look forward to the benefit of cooperation in the field of compact reactors, and the vitality and possibility of using this type of reactors in the Kingdom as a result of the change in the Jordanian energy market.
“We have cooperated with Ross Atom for many years, and we are developing this cooperation in various fields,” said Jordan’s Atomic Energy Agency chief Dr. Khaled Tuqan, adding that the proposed project to build a compact nuclear power plant is more suited to energy market requirements and more. Need, so we want to focus on this project. ”
“The projects we are implementing must meet the strategic needs and interests of the countries where these projects are being built, and for this reason, we, together with our Jordanian partners, have decided to focus our cooperation on the development of these projects,” said Yevgeny Bakermanov, president of GSC Ross Atom Overseas. We have built on the technology of compact micro-reactors based on Ross Atom’s innovative solutions. ”
He added that compact micro-reactor technologies will become one of our top priorities in the development of the global energy market.
