French nuclear giant Areva S.A. (AREVA.FR) said Tuesday it has discovered more than 20,000 tons of uranium in Jordan, which is trying to develop atomic energy to meet its growing needs.
French nuclear giant Areva S.A. (AREVA.FR) said Tuesday it has
discovered more than 20,000 tons of uranium in
Jordan
,
which is trying to develop atomic energy to meet its growing needs.
"Last year, Areva discovered reserves of 12,300 tons of uranium in central
Jordan
. Further
exploration proved that the same area contained more than 20,000 tons of
uranium," state-run
Petra
news
agency quoted the company as saying in a statement.
"At this important stage, we will start conducting feasibility and
technical studies about uranium mining," the statement said.
Jordan
,
which imports 95% of its energy needs, is currently struggling to find
alternatives to unstable Egyptian gas supplies, which normally cover 80% of the
kingdom's power production.
Since 2011, the pipeline supplying gas from
Egypt
to
both
Israel
and
Jordan
has
been attacked 14 times.
A consortium formed by Areva and
Japan
's
Mitsubishi Corp. (8058.TO) is competing with
Russia
's
Atomstroyexport to build
Jordan
first
nuclear plant.
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