KAZAKHSTAN: URANIUM PRODUCTION ON THE RISE
11:36, 10 January 2009
ASTANA. January 10. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan registered a 28 percent year-on-year rise for uranium extraction in 2008, the government has reported.
"The total volume of the uranium extracted by the National atomic company Kazatomprom JSC for 2008 will make up 8500.5 tons," a government statement said, according to a report distributed by the Gazeta.kz news website on January 9.
Kazakhstan seeks to become the world?s largest exporter of uranium by 2010, aiming to raise annual production to at least 15,400 tons. President Nursultan Nazarbayev is expected to conclude a major nuclear cooperation deal between Kazakhstan and India when he visits New Delhi later this January.
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