Monday, February 13, 2012

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Could Build Nuclear Power Plant By 2015

(RFE/RL)

March 28, 2006 -- A Kazakh energy official today said Kazakhstan could build its first nuclear reactor by 2015.

Government Pushing Nuclear Power Despite Public Fears

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March 28, 2006

Nesipkul Bertisbaev, an official at the Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov is heading a working group that will analyze aspects of the project.

During the Soviet era, Kazakhstan was home to one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals and to a nuclear test ground, at Semipalatinsk. It became a non-nuclear state after it gained independence in 1991.

(ITAR-TASS)

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