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Kazakhstan President officially launched the power plant saying that the promised warmth for the houses of Astana residents had been arranged.

The project is targeted at preventing emergency shutdowns of the power plant, bringing its capacities up by 16% to 116 megawatt and producing another 57 million kilowatt-hours a year.

Russia purchases Kazakh coal for its Troitsk hydropower plant, but the ash is brought back to Kazakhstan.

Early May a State Agency for Atomic Power Industry was launched to regulate atomic power industry.

By 2030 approximately 4-4.5% of power should be generated by nuclear power stations.

Kazakhstan Ministry of Industry and New Technologies plans to construct a heat power station.

Once the power plant is launched, Kyrgyzstan will be able to generate extra 40% of the currently generated power.

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev is to visit South Korea in March 2012.

According to Vice Minister of Industry and Trade Bakhytzhan Dzhaskaliyev, the construction will take at least 5-6 years.

Reconstruction and expansion of Almaty heat electric generation plant planned by Samruk-Energo will improve the ecological situation in the city.

Besides, participation in projects of nuclear power plants construction is of great importance to Astana.

The scope of performed works is over 90 percent: Asset Issekeshev.

Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Japan said that Japanese companies are interested in obtaining final products for their nuclear nuclear power stations from Kazakhstan.

Anthropogenic disasters at nuclear power stations should not hamper development of the industry: State Secretary Kanat Saudabayev.

All this will contribute to development of adjacent industries: Sergey Yashin, KazAtomProm Nuclear Company Vice Chairman of the Board.

It is the first time Kazakhstan has decided to purchase electric power rather than exchange it for coal for the Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) thermal power plant: Kyrgyz Acting Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov.

According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technology, Kazakhstan is considering expediency of a nuclear power plant from the safety perspective.

According to him, Kazakhstan’s citizens haven’t been taught to save electric power, water and other resources.

The first two power generating units of the thermal power station are to be commissioned in 2013, with the other two units being placed into operation in 2016.

August 22 a number of Kazakhstan’s media quoted KazTag Agency’s report that allegedly Kazakhstan is negotiating with KEPCO on uranium production and construction of a nuclear power plant.