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The Government of Kazakhstan and the Samruk-Kazyna sovereign wealth fund will over the next year explore the possibility of developing nuclear energy in Kazakhstan, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in his State of the Nation address on 1 September. The country is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2060 but will need energy for quality growth, he said.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 September 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-optimal-solution-for-decarbonising-Kazakhs
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a video address to the 6th Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's Vladivostok on 3 September that Kazakhstan needs a nuclear power plant, and that the issue should be analysed in detail.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskazakh-president-urges-consideration-of-nuclear-power-9057877
The long-term agreement is for the sale of electricity between Rosatom and the Baimskaya minerals deposit in Chukotka, in the country’s far east. A Rosatom spokesman said the agreement is “the most important event in the framework of a large-scale programme for the development of the Russian Arctic”.
Rosatom said it plans to use three floating nuclear power plants, each employing a pair of the new 55-MW RITM-200M reactors, a version of which is in service powering Russia’s icebreakers. A fourth unit would be held in reserve for use during repair or refuelling.
According to Rosatom, the first reactors are already under construction by Atomenergomash.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/rosatom-signs-agreement-that-could-lead-to-floating-reactors-for-far-east-minerals-deposit-7-3-2021
The pandemic has shown the resilience of the nuclear industry to act responsibly, both as a supplier of energy and as an employer, the head of the world's biggest uranium producer said today. In his address to delegates at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle forum, Kazatomprom CEO Galymzhan Pirmatov said the wellbeing of the company's 20,000 employees was his first priority.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 15 April 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Kazatomprom-put-health-before-profit-during-pandem
China General Nuclear (CGN) is expected to acquire a 49% stake in Ortalyk LLP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kazakh uranium producer Kazatomprom, by mid-2021. The transfer of the stake was part of cooperation agreements signed between CGN and Kazatomprom in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 06 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CGN-set-to-take-stake-in-Kazakh-uranium-mining-com
US-based nuclear fuel technology company Lightbridge Corporation has received a patent from the Eurasian Patent Office for its innovative nuclear fuel assemblies. This is a divisional patent and covers an all-metal fuel assembly design with a mixed grid fuel rod arrangement inside the fuel assembly.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-patents-lightbridge-7961460
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 17 October took delivery of a shipment of low enriched uranium (LEU) at the purpose-built LEU Bank in Kazakhstan which is intended to provide assurance to countries about the availability of nuclear fuel. “With the arrival of the first shipment, the IAEA LEU Bank is now established and operational,” IAEA Acting Director General Cornel Feruta said. “It is the first time the Agency has undertaken a project of this legal, operational and logistical complexity.”
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 24 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-fuel-bank-begins-operation-7470035
The International Atomic Energy Agency took delivery of a shipment of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at a purpose-built facility in Kazakhstan on Thursday (17 October), officially establishing the agency’s LEU bank aimed at providing assurance to countries about the availability of nuclear fuel.
Owned by the IAEA and hosted by Kazakhstan, the bank is one of the agency’s most ambitious and challenging projects since it was founded in 1957. Plans for the facility were first passed by the IAEA board of governors in December 2010.
The bank has been fully funded by contributions from IAEA member states and other donors totalling $150m, covering estimated costs for 20 years of operation. Donors include the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the US, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Norway and Kazakhstan.
The bank offers a supply of last resort for IAEA member states that experience a supply disruption due to exceptional circumstances and are unable to secure nuclear power fuel from the commercial market, state-to-state arrangements or by any other means. It will be a physical reserve of 90 tonnes of LEU, the basic ingredient to fabricate fuel for nuclear power plants.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 19 October 2019
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-delivery-sees-usd150-million-kazakhstan-facility-become-operational-10-5-2019
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) yesterday took delivery of the first shipment of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at a purpose-built storage facility at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in eastern Kazakhstan. The delivery marks the official start of operation of the IAEA LEU Bank, aimed at providing assurance to countries about the availability of nuclear fuel.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 19 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-fuel-bank-receives-first-delivery-of-uranium
Assystem and the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan have formalised the creation of a joint venture to oversee their cooperation in the implementation of the Central Asian country's energy transition. The development, which the French engineering group announced on 11 October, follows an agreement they signed on 16 May.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 18 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Assystem-Uzbek-energy-ministry-create-JV