Kazakhstan not to store other countries' nuclear waste - Minister of Ecology N. Ashimov
ASTANA. April 28. KAZINFORM /Gulnara Zhandagulova/ Kazakhstan will not store nuclear waste from other countries, Minister of Environmental Protection Nurgali Ashimov has said it during an online conference at BNews portal today.
"In accordance with the legislation, it is prohibited to import nuclear waste to Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan will never store nuclear waste. Neither the Ministry nor the Government will allow importing it", the Minister noted.
"We should understand that Kazakhstan is going to store the waste of the International Nuclear Fuel Bank. We plan to store small guaranteed amount of low-enriched uranium to produce fuel assemblies for the nuclear power plants. The International Nuclear Fuel Bank will be opened in the country which possesses no nuclear weapon and which is fully open for the IAEA inspectors", N. Ashimov added.
As is known, on April 19, at the Kiev Summit Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev stated that Kazakhstan was ready to deplore the International Nuclear Fuel Bank in its territory.
Kazakhstan ranks the first in uranium ore production in the world. Besides, the country has huge scientific-research experience both in exploitation of the reactors and in experimental nuclear physics.