Amman - Jordan Monday signed two nuclear agreements with China including one allowing the Hashemite Kingdom to get a Chinese "non-critical" training system, according to the President of the Jordan Nuclear Energy Commission (JNEC) Khaled Touqan.

He said the facility would be designed and constructed in coordination between the Chinese Atomic Energy Corporation and the Jordan University for Sciences and Technology (JUST), where the unit would be built.

The second deal ivolved a blueprint for implementing an agreement initialed in August to build a research nuclear reactor in Jordan and to help the country extract uranium from at least two local areas.

Jordan earlier this year signed nuclear cooperation accords with the United States, France, Britain, Russia and South Korea.

Jordan and other Arab countries have started to show interest in possession of nuclear know-how after Iran went ahead with its controversial nuclear programme. (dpa)