The International Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan are to strengthen collaboration in nuclear science and technology including the development of infrastructure for the country’s first commercial nuclear station.
During a visit to Kazakhstan this week, IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi met Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and senior leaders and visited the world’s only low-enriched uranium (LEU) bank – a physical reserve of LEU for eligible IAEA member states in case the supply of LEU to a nuclear power plant is disrupted.
The LEU bank is in Oskemen in east Kazakhstan, and is owned and controlled by the IAEA. It became operational in 2019.
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