Britain, Jordan sign nuclear pactBritain and Jordan signed a nuclear cooperation pact here Monday, with Foreign Secretary David Miliband hailing the country's "transparent" approach to developing nuclear energy. Miliband inked the deal with Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in the sidelines Sidelines Hypothetical position referring to noninvolvement in a stock; merely watching. of a visit by King Abdullah King Abdullah can refer to:
"If we are to move the world to a low-carbon economy A low-carbon economy is an economy in which carbon dioxide emissions from the use of carbon based fuels (coal, oil and gas) are freezed and significantly reduced.[1]. , then nuclear power needs to be an important part of the energy mix," Miliband said after the signing, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown met the Jordanian monarch. "But it needs to be developed in a safe and secure way... Jordan?s nuclear power programme is fully transparent making it a model for countries considering developing their own civil nuclear programmes," he added. Jordan, which imports 95 percent of its energy needs, and several other Arab countries have announced plans for nuclear power programmes, faced with Shiite Iran's controversial atomic drive. In February Iraq's Electricity Minister Electricity Minister Karim Wahid invited France to help his country build a nuclear plant. In March Jordan said four international firms have proposed to build a nuclear plant in the kingdom to help generate power and desalinate de·sal·i·nate tr.v. de·sal·i·nat·ed, de·sal·i·nat·ing, de·sal·i·nates To desalinize. de·sal water. Jordan's 1.2 billion tonnes of phosphate phosphate, salt or ester of phosphoric acid, H3PO4. Because phosphoric acid is tribasic (having three replaceable hydrogen atoms), it forms monophosphate, diphosphate, and triphosphate salts in which one, two, or three of the hydrogens of the reserves are estimated to contain 130,000 tonnes of uranium uranium (y  rā`nēəm), radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol U; at. no. 92; at. wt. 238.0289; m.p. 1,132°C;; b.p. 3,818°C;; sp. gr. 19. , whose enriched form provides fuel for nuclear plants.
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