OREANDA-NEWS. September 24, 2014. At the ongoing IAEA session Dzhomart Aliev, CEO of Rusatom Overseas, and 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.