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Kazakhstan / France Announces Agreements As Competition Heats Up For First Reactor Contract

By David Dalton, Patrycja Rapacka
2 December 2022

China, Russia and South Korea also under consideration for nuclear new-build deal, Astana says
France Announces Agreements As Competition Heats Up For First Reactor Contract
Orano Mining president Nicolas Maes (left) Kazatomprom chief executive officer Yerzhan Mukanov signed an agreement for the extraction of uranium ore. Courtesy Kazatomprom.
France-based engineering group Assystem has signed a memorandum of understanding with JSC Samruk-Kazyna, the national welfare fund of Kazakhstan, to cooperate on Astana’s planned civil nuclear power programme – one of three agreements put in place this week as France aims to win the tender for the central European country’s first commercial nuclear reactors.

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