UK to sign nuclear deal with Jordan

Britain will sign a nuclear deal this week with energy-poor Jordan, which is struggling to find alternate resources to generate electricity and desalinate water, the British embassy said yesterday.
Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Lady Barbara Thomas Judge, will arrive Saturday in Amman on a two-day visit to sign a "nuclear cooperation" agreement with her counterpart Khaled Toukan.
Judge and Toukan "will discuss how best Jordan could benefit from the United Kingdom's wide experience in the field of nuclear energy," the embassy said in a statement.
It did not give details of the agreement but said Judge would also meet with Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi.