The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) is evaluating offers from Canada, Russia and a French-Japanese consortium for the country's first nuclear power plant, the agency said Thursday, according to dpa. The three technologies, officially short-listed by the commission earlier this week, are an Enhanced CANDU6 reactor offered by Canada's AECL, an AES-92 VVER-100 reactor proposed by the Russian firm Atomstroyexport, and an ATMEA1 reactor pitched by a French-Japanese consortium comprising AREVA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The three vendors were selected from seven international suppliers who vied for the project earlier this year and were technically and economically vetted by the JAEC and its consultant, WorleyParsons. The commission and WorleyParsons will begin discussions with the three suppliers in June. The process to select the vendor who will ultimately proceed to negotiations on the design and construction of the plant is expected to last a year, according to the JAEC. The plant, slated to be a 1000-megawatt Generation III reactor with a closed-loop cooling cycle, is to be set up 25 kilometres outside the Red Sea port of Aqaba and several kilometres inland.
