Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - An official at the Russian state-owned firm Rosatom said that Jordanian-Russian cooperation in constructing Jordan's first nuclear reactor is moving forward and serves the interest of both sides.

In response to a question by Jordan News Agency, Petra on the sidelines of ATOMEXPO 2015, which is organized by Rosatom in Moscow, she added that experts from the firm and representatives of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency are continuing work on the various stages of the project.

Meanwhile, ATOMEXPO International Forum opened in Moscow today with the participation of 1000 people from 40 countries.

Senior Manager at ROSATOM Angelica Haperskaya said that participants and visitors of the expo are mostly from countries that have nuclear reactors or plan to establish them in cooperation with Russia.

The purpose of the Forum is to provide the leaders of nuclear power industry and nuclear power engineering with an opportunity to publically define the place and role of nuclear generation in the XXI century energy balance, analyze the main challenges, issues and scenarios of development of the energy market worldwide.