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Nuclear programme ‘to lower electricity costs by 70%’ | The Jordan Times
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Deputy Hind Fayez said in a statement that she would not allow the project to be constructed at Qusayr Amra as planned.
“I will not allow the construction of the #nuclear reactor, not even over my dead body,” Fayez said in a message sent to The Jordan Times. “The Bani Sakher tribe also rejects the construction of the nuclear reactor in Qusayr Amra,” said the deputy, who belongs to this prominent Central Badia tribe.
Greenpeace Mediterranean described the project as “ill-conceived” and “unacceptable”.
In a statement e-mailed to The Jordan Times, Greenpeace Mediterranean Climate and Energy Campaigner Safa’ Al Jayoussi said it is a matter of concern that the AES92 technology proposed by Russian firm has not been built in Russia or anywhere in the world.
But Toukan said earlier this week that the firm’s AES92 VVER1000 reactor is a licensed technology “that has a proven safety record in several European countries and elsewhere”.
Energy officials have listed the safety track record of the technology among the main advantages of the Russian bid, which beat out shortlisted French firm AREVA’s experimental ATMEA1 reactor and Canadian AECL’s CANDU technology.
But Jayoussi charged that “the lack of transparency coupled with the ignorance [of the JAEC] is unacceptable”.
Greenpeace called on the government to abandon the nuclear plans before it is “too late”.