Kazatomprom and Areva presented Astana students equipment to study nuclear fuel cycle
13:15, 17 April 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM An alternative energy forms exposition opened at the Schoolchildren's Palace in Astana. Kazatomprom National Company and French giant Areva presented the students equipment to study nuclear fuel cycle and renewables.
Kazatomprom CEO Vladimir Shkolnik attended the opening ceremony. "Our country is on the threshold of the great technologic breakthrough. The future of Kazakhstan depends on education our youth receive and how fundamental their attainments are. In his State-of-the-Nation Address President Nazarbayev accentuates the problem of the best education for our youth. I appreciate our French colleagues for they have supported our proposal," he said. According to Areva head Olivier Wantz, information materials handed over to the palace will be a good manual for experiments and energy laboratory research.