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Kazakhstan|business|September 7, 2017 / 02:19 PM
Kazakhstan will decide on construction of nuclear power plant next year: Energy Minister

AKIPRESS.COM - The decision to build a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan or not can be taken only next year when a feasibility study will be done, Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said Thursday.

In late August, adviser-envoy of the Kazakh Embassy in Russia Marat Syzdykov said that construction of a nuclear power plant is in Kazakhstan's mid-term and long-term plans.

"I also heard that one of the diplomats said Kazakhstan will be building nuclear plants. But I want to say that we can only discuss it after a feasibility study will be done by Kazatomprom national company. The feasibility study will be developed next year, and only then we can say exactly yes or no," Bozumbayev said at the KazEnergy forum on September 7.

He also said that the total investments for the fuel and energy sector initiatives for 2017-2025 will have to be over 19 trillion tenge, of which 97% will be provided through private investments.

"These investments will go for the construction of a plant for the production of fuel assemblies, the introduction of IT technologies in uranium mining enterprises in 2017-2025 years," he said.

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