Authorities in Kazakhstan have completed a round of public consultations in the village of Ulken, on the western shore of Lake Balkhash in the Almaty region, a site which had been selected to host the country’s first nuclear power plant.

A statement by the ministry of energy said that representatives of the ministry, the Kazakh Institute for Nuclear Physics and the state-owned nuclear project company, presented the impact of nuclear power plant construction on the environment, public and individual health, local economy, infrastructure, and the development of small and medium-sized businesses.