Jordan Monday signed two nuclear agreements with China including one allowing Jordan to get a Chinese "non-critical" training system, according to the President of the Jordan Nuclear Energy Commission (JNEC) Khaled Touqan, according to DPA. He said the facility would be designed and constructed in coordination between the Chinese Atomic Energy Corporation and the Jordan University for Sciences and Technology (JUST), where the unit would be built. The second deal ivolved a blueprint for implementing an agreement initialed in August to build a research nuclear reactor in Jordan and to help the country extract uranium from at least two local areas. Jordan earlier this year signed nuclear cooperation accords with the United States, France, Britain, Russia and South Korea.
