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Jordan Atomic Energy Commission
Technical Meeting on Technology Assessment for New Nuclear Power Programmes
International Atomic Energy Agency
Nuclear Power Plant Technical and Financial Evaluation
Jordan Experience Yazan Al-Bakhit
Vienna, Austria, 1-3 September 2015

Contents
Background
National Energy Strategy
Technical and Financial Evaluation
Current Status
Lessons Learned

Background

Jordan Country Profile
- Total Area: 89,213 Km2
- Sea Port: Aqaba
- Coastline: 26 Km
- Population: 6.4 million (2012)
- Climate: Mediterranean & Arid Desert
- GDP: $33 billion (2014)
- 100% electrified
Population (2014): 10-11 million

Challenges Facing Jordan (1)
Small economy - 70% of GDP/service sector.
Need for Mega projects - high capital investment.
Energy crisis - translated to a severe economic
crisis.
Limited energy resources - 97% imported.

Challenges Facing Jordan (2)
Single Source of imported Natural Gas - more than
85% of total generation.
High electricity demand growth.
Political turmoil in the Middle East (security,
refugees, loss of export markets and energy
sources, etc.).

Peak Load Development
188
45
6
56
4
858
11
58
1642
25
44
26
60
2770
2950
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013
9% annually

Jordans Demand Forecast

8969
25 17 27
724
3229
30
1 3
32 4941
3 411 5 3
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
NG HFO DO Imported Electricity
Electricity generation by fuel type:
Jordans Power System

Arab Gas Pipeline

Jordan Energy System
NEPCO Losses, mUSD
226
1424
1636
1521
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2010 2011 2012 2013
mU
SD
NEPCO Losses, mUSD
2010-2013: USD 5 billion

Refugee Crises

National Energy Strategy

Electricity Supply Options
Imported NG (Limited Quantities & Single Source).
HFO & LFO (Very Expensive & Environmental Effect).
Local NG (Very Limited Quantities).
LNG (Expensive, Limited intake infrastructure).
Oil Shale (Financing, Environmental Effect).
Renewables (Limited Utilization & Non-dispatchable).
Nuclear Option (Financing, Public opinion).

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Jordans Electricity Supply
54% 33%
13%
2020
15%
37%
20%
28%
2040
GAS Fuel Oil Oil Shale
Nuclear Fuel Imported Electricity Renewables
Imported, NG & LNG

Technical and Financial Evaluation

General Criteria for Selection of JNPP
Safety and reliability
Simplicity, standardization & modularization
Waste considerations
Diversion-Resistance
Cost considerations
Fuel cycle considerations
Desalination compatibility
Cooling water requirements
Potential spin-off industry
Size 700-1200 MWe

In 2009, JAEC received expressions of interest from four reactor technology vendors.
In January 2010, JAEC issued a questionnaire to each of the interested technology vendors requesting technical and preliminary financial information.
In March 2010, JAEC received vendors responses offering JAEC seven different plant technologies.
JACE conducted assessment of the submitted vendors responses to select the top three technologies suitable for Jordan.
Technology Assessment Background (1)

In May 2010, JAEC initiated the Competitive Dialogue (CD) process.
In January 2011, JAEC issued the BIS.
In July 2013, JAEC asked for an integrated offer.
In October 2013, the Preferred Bidder was selected based upon the Integrated approach consisting the EPC contractor and the strategic partner (Investor/Operator).
Technology Assessment Background (2)

January 18, 2011 20
Selection Process
Pre-selection
Expressions of Interest
Initial Technology Proposals
Initial Technology Assessment by JAEC
Competitive Dialogue (CD)
Phase 1
Phase 2 (BIS)
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Pre-Selection Goals
Evaluate in detail the reactor technologies of interest
in accordance with approved procedures and
evaluation criteria.
Select the top two or three reactor technologies/
types based on technical and financial/economic
parameters to carry forward into a Competitive
Dialogue (CD) process.
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Proposed Plants (Pre-Selection Phase)
Four potential vendors proposed the following seven plant types:
Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO):
APR-1000 (Pressurized Water Reactor [PWR])
AECL of Canada:
EC6 (Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor [PHWR])
Atom Stroy Export (ASE) of Russia:
VVER*-1000 version A91 (AES-91) (Russian PWR)
VVER-1000 version A92 (AES-92) (Russian PWR)
AES-2006 Leningrad version (Russian PWR)
AES-2006 Novo Voronezh version (Russian PWR)
AREVA (France) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) (Japan):
ATMEA1 (PWR)
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Results of the Pre-Selection
Three nuclear power plant types were selected.
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Competitive Dialogue (CD) Goals
Fair (equal treatment).
Transparent.
Yield sound technical and safe design, acceptable financial
& commercial conditions, and competitive pricing for the
project.
Yield a solution that supports a new NPP in Jordan
producing power in 2018/2019 timeframe.

Competitive Dialogue (CD)
Phase 1: Collect & evaluate information, data/inputs from the three vendors with
the objective of selecting two potential vendors who would advance to Phase 2.
CD Phase 1 could not narrow-down the potential vendors to two.
Phase 2: Invite three vendors that were selected in Phase 1 to submit bids for
engineering, procurement and construction of the plant, including fuel supply.
Evaluate the presented bids to narrow down the candidates from three to two for final engineering procurement & construction contract negotiation.
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Bid Invitation Specifications (BIS)
Part A -
Administrative
Instructions
Part B -
Technical
Requirements
Part C -
Financial,
Commercial, &
Legal
Part D - Attachments:
No. 1 - Technical datasheets
No. 2 - Allocation of Work between EPC Contractor and Owner/Operator( DOR)
No. 3 - Site Characterization Data
No. 4 - Grid Requirements
No. 5 - Turnover Documents

Key Technical Requirements Safety:
A design able to sustain the Jordan seismic specificities
A design able to withstand a large commercial air plane crash
A plant design which minimizes to the exclusion zone size
A modern digital I&C technology
Fuel supply security & Waste management:
An efficient non-proliferating waste management process
A nuclear fuel procurement on the competitive open market
Operation & efficiency:
Highest efficiency & availability factors
A plant design minimizing fresh water consumption
A vendor long term sustainability

Utilized Material
Bid Invitation Specifications
Bid Evaluation Manual
Results of Competitive Dialogue Phase 1
Bids & Supporting Information, including:
Questions by evaluators and answers by bidders; and
Face-to-face interactions with bidders (two meetings
with each).
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Evaluation Results
During the technical evaluation process;
59 Binders of vendor bid information were processed.
6 Technical and 2 Economic evaluation reports and were prepared
including over 1300 pages of analysis, evaluation, and references.
Over 562 Technical and 142 Financial questions to bidders issued.