The proposal was announced during a video conferencing session of the Kazakhstan-Czech Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Industrial and Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
A statement from Kazakhstan’s ministry of trade and integration said that during the meeting, the Kazakh side announced several proposals for the supply of natural uranium concentrates and uranium products to Czech nuclear power plants.
Latest statistics the Nuclear Energy Agency show that Kazakhstan was the top uranium producer in 2019 with 22,808 tU. Kazatomprom produced the most uranium among mining companies with 22% of the world’s total.
The Czech Republic has four nuclear units at Dukovany and two at Temelin. In 2019, they provided about 35% of the country’s electricity generation, according to International Atomic Energy Agency statistics.