Russia Plans To Help Build First Unit In Kazakhstan
Written by NucNet
Friday, 23 May 2008
23 May (NucNet): Russia says it is hoping to help build a new nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, the country's first.
President Dmitry Medvedev said after a meeting with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev this week that Russia is going to cooperate "more closely" with Kazakhstan in nuclear energy.
He said Russia wanted to "initiate deeper integration", particularly as part of a project to build a nuclear unit.
Russia and Kazakhstan have already reached an agreement in principal to consider the construction of a new nuclear power plant at Aktau on the Caspian Sea in the west of the country.
Kazakhstan closed its prototype 52-megawatt fast breeder reactor BN-350 in 1999. According to International Atomic Energy Agency statistics, the country has three operational research reactors.
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Russia And Kazakhstan To Develop Innovative Reactor Units (World Nuclear Review No. 42, 20 October 2006)
Russia And Kazakhstan Sign Siberia Uranium Centre Agreement (World Nuclear Review No. 20, 18 May 2007)
Russia And Kazakhstan Sign Agreement On Possible New Aktau Unit (World Nuclear Review No. 51, 21 December 2007)
