ASTANA, August 11. /TASS/. The first nuclear power plant (NPP) being built in Kazakhstan has the strategic significance for the country, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.

Initiating engineering surveys is a crucial step that influences the safety, reliability and economic viability of the plant.

A groundbreaking ceremony marked the formal start of the project, which could take a decade to complete and require ...

In addition, Uzbekistan and Rosatom will try to build a larger-capacity NPP sooner, he said. "We will try to build a larger NPP within a short time period and introduce a larger system," ...

ASTANA. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov has met with Russia's Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev after the start of engineering and survey works prior to the construction of a ...