ALMATY. Nov 6 (Interfax) – Kazakhstan’s national nuclear corporation, Kazatomprom, will be involved in the construction of new nuclear power plants in China, Kazatomprom chief Mukhtar Dzhakishev told a press conference.
“Kazatomprom is embarking on a new line of business, which is helping to build nuclear power plants – in this case in China,” Dzhakishev said. (more…)
BEIJING, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Three Chinese tourists have bought a 274-kg (604-lb) piece of depleted uranium and brought it home from Kyrgyzstan as a souvenir, the China Daily newspaper reported Monday.
The three tourists from the city of Aksu in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region bought “the glittering treasure” for $2,000 at a flea market in Kyrgyzstan, hoping to make money by reselling it in China. (more…)
MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) – Russia and China will inaugurate an atomic power station in Jiangsu province on December 20, as Moscow steps up construction of such stations worldwide, a top Russian official has said.
The head of Russian atomic power station contractor Atomstroiexport, Sergei Shmatko, told journalists Russia was shaking off the stigma attached to its nuclear industry after the Soviet-era Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and was in talks with European and Asian countries. (more…)
December 04, 2007: 05:55 AM EST
PARIS, Dec. 4, 2007 (Thomson Financial) — French anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucleaire said it has mounted a legal challenge to the construction of EDF’s Flamanville nuclear reactor and hopes to get work stopped.
EDF said the construction of the 1,650 megawatts EPR European pressurised water reactor, to be supplied by Areva, has started following ground preparation at the site.
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By Isabel Gorst in Almaty
Kazakhstan has agreed to share its uranium resources with China in exchange for equity in Chinese nuclear power facilities in a strategic deal that brings together the world’s fastest growing uranium and nuclear electricity producers.
Moukhtar Dzhakishev, the president of Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear power company, said: “We will swap shares in uranium production for shares in Chinese atomic facilities… This is the first time China has allowed any foreign company to become a shareholder in its atomic power industry enterprises.”
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