Russia and Jordan signed Project Development Agreement on Nuclear Power Plant Construction

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Communications Department of ROSATOM, PUBLISHED 27.09.2014

Today, at the margins of 58th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference, Dzhomart Aliev, CEO of Rusatom Overseas (subsidiary of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM), and Dr. Khaled Toukan, Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, signed Project Development Agreement on construction of a nuclear power plant in the province of Zarqa in Central Jordan.

The document sets obligations of the Parties for the first stage of the two-unit nuclear power plant construction project with total capacity of 2000 MW. The project phase that has now started will result in a contract for nuclear power plant construction that is planned to be signed in 1,5-2 years.

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