Russian nuclear giant Rosatom will lead the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan. Astana is the largest producer of the Uranus in the world, the authorities in the Central Asian country said on Saturday. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
“Rosatom was appointed a leader of an international consortium for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan,” stated in a statement by the Agency for the Nuclear Energy of the former Soviet Republic.
Kazakhstan is currently The world’s largest Uranus producers, which provides up to 43 percent of nuclear fuel supplies. At the same time, however, it does not produce enough electricity to cover its own needs, it recalls AFP.
The establishment of the power plant was approved in a referendum at the end of 2024 and its foundations seem to be placed near the almost abandoned village of ülken near the Balchasky Lake in the southeast of the country. Three companies from China, France and South Korea, which will become part of the consortium, were also interested in the construction. Observers argue that the idea of a consortium is to maintain good relations with all the countries involved, but it is likely that Rosatom will eventually build a power plant itself, states AFP.
Kazakh President Kasym-žomart Tokayev is trying to maintain good relations with Russia and neighboring Chinawhich finances large infrastructure projects in the region. Rosatom has already proposed a project financing plan and the details are being fine -tuning, the statement said. This happened just a few days before the planned visit of the Chinese President Si Jin -Pching in Kazakhstan at the China Summit – Central Asia.
In the past, Kazakhstan owned nuclear power plants when he was still part of the Soviet Union. It also stored Soviet nuclear weapons and also carried out nuclear tests. However, after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, he surrendered to nuclear causes, recalls AFP.
