Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 50

14-Dec-2009

CASPIAN

Kazakhstan Considers Building Nuclear Power Plant By 2020

Kazakh Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev said in an interview published in Kazakhstanskaya Pravda on 5 December 5 that Kazakhstan was looking to begin developing its own nuclear power program in the 2010-20 period. Mr Mynbayev said that the draft program proposes the construction of a 300mw nuclear power plant in the Mangistau region, where three existing...