30 May (NucNet): Russia and Kazakhstan have signed an agreement that could lead to them cooperating on the construction of a nuclear power station in Kazakhstan, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has said.
Rosatom said the agreement, signed by Rosatom chief executive officer Sergei Kiriyenko and National Atomic Company of Kazakhstan (Kazatomprom) president Vladimir Schkolnik, covers possible cooperation in design, construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of a nuclear power station using reactors with an installed capacity of 300 megawatts to 1,200 MW.
The two countries also intend to cooperate on nuclear fuel supply to the proposed facility with the possibility of fabricating the fuel, or its components, in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has no commercial nuclear units. It operated the BN-350 Aktau demonstration fast breeder reactor from 1992 until 1999. The reactor has now been decommissioned.
