Russian President Vladimir Putin will oversee the signing of a deal outlining parameters for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan when he visits the country this week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Kazakhstan, an oil- and gas-rich nation of 20.5 million people, has not had any nuclear power generation capacity since 1999, when the BN-350 reactor on the shores of the Caspian Sea was decommissioned. The country voted in a referendum in 2024 in favour of constructing new plants and plans to have 2.4 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2035.
Source: Reuters