The deadline for operation of a plant being bult in Kazakhstan for production of fuel assemblies for Chinese nuclear power plants could be put back because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kazatomprom chief executive officer Galymzhan Pirmatov said.
The plant, on the site of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, near Oksemen in eastern Kazakhstan, will have an annual capacity of 200 tonnes of fuel assemblies.
Mr Pirmatov said the timing of putting the plant into operation is being reviewed because equipment manufacturers from France, Germany and China are involved in the project.
The plant, on the site of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, near Oksemen in eastern Kazakhstan, will have an annual capacity of 200 tonnes of fuel assemblies.
Mr Pirmatov said the timing of putting the plant into operation is being reviewed because equipment manufacturers from France, Germany and China are involved in the project.
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