Japan Hopes To Secure Nuclear Fuel Supply With Kazakhstan Deal

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) said Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Japan Akylbek Kamaldinov and Japan’s foreign minister Katsuya Okada signed the agreement in Tokyo on 2 March 2010.

Kazakhstan has the world’s second largest uranium reserves after Australia. JAIF said the agreement would give Japan a stable supply of nuclear fuel as well as resulting in the “peaceful and legal transfer of nuclear related items and technologies to Kazakhstan”, which is hoping to launch its own civilian nuclear power programme.

Research institutes in the two countries have already been working together in areas such as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and nuclear fusion, JAIF said.

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