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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Water Shortages May End Jordan’s Nuclear Power Hopes

Water Shortages May End Jordan’s Nuclear Power Hopes

Beginning in 2004 the Jordanian government began studying the Kingdom’s options to meet its rising energy needs, with nuclear power as one of the possibilities. Three years later King Abdullah II stated that Jordan was “looking at nuclear power for peaceful and energy purposes” and by the end of 2007 the government issued a revised and updated National Master Strategy of Energy, which called for six percent of Jordan’s electrical output to come from nuclear power by 2020.Four years later, in September 2011 the Jordan Atomic…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Water-Shortages-May-End-Jordans-Nuclear-Power-Hopes.html

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