Kazakhstan Must Develop Nuclear Energy Sector

The Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Minister, Vladimir Shkolnik, is convinced that, Kazakhstan will, sooner or later, follow the whole world and realize the necessity of developing nuclear energy and that there will be no alternative to nuclear power plants in future. He shared his vision of this issue after a ceremony held to open the National centre for controlling the country’s unified electric energy system in Astana at the end of the past week.

“The whole world will acknowledge the necessity of developing nuclear energy, regardless of whether we want it or not,” the minister said. Our country, which possesses the largest uranium deposits in the world, technologies for producing fuel for the nuclear power plants and the most up-to-date uranium extraction technologies and which has more than a 30-year experience in operating various nuclear power plants and corresponding base and cadres, should simply develop its nuclear energy [sector].

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