6 Apr (NucNet): A South Korean consortium has signed a contract to build Jordan’s first research reactor by 2015.
The consortium, led by the state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), has signed a formal contract to build the five-megawatt Jordan Research and Training Reactor (JRTR), South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said.
The KAERI-Daewoo Engineering and Construction Company consortium signed a letter of intent for the project earlier this year with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission.
Under the formal agreement, the consortium will build the reactor, a radioactive isotope manufacturing facility, and related buildings over the next five years.
The JRTR, to be built at the Jordan University for Sciences and Technology in Irbid, a city 70 kilometers to the North of Jordan’s capital, Amman, will be based on South Korea’s 30-megawatt High-flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor (HANARO). HANARO in Daejeon, some 160 kilometers south of Seoul, has been in operation since 1995.
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