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Four bids for Jordan nuclear plant
Mar 31, 2010, 18:10 GMT
Amman - Jordan has received four offers to build a nuclear power plant in the country, the chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Khalid Touqan, said Wednesday.
Touqan said the offers came from Russia, Canada, South Korea and a consortium comprising France's Areva and Mitsubishi of Japan.
'We are now studying the bids to choose two of them by the end of April for negotiations and then the picking up the best offer within one year from now,' he told a news conference.
Touqan said the JAEC was conducting an appraisal of the site it had chosen for the plant, about 25 kilometres south of the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
The JAEC has so far concluded nuclear cooperation agreements with eight countries for the establishment of a national nuclear programme for peaceful uses and Touqan expected the number of such accords to reach 12 before the end of the year.
He excluded cooperation with Israel unless it joined the relevant global agreements, such as the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and withdrew from the occupied Arab territories.
On Tuesday, the JAEC signed an agreement with the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and the Daewoo engineering and construction group for building a research nuclear reactor at a Jordanian university at a cost of 130 million dollars.
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