Ministry refutes reports that South Korea will construct nuclear power plant

    Astana is NOT negotiating with companies of South Korea on construction of a nuclear power station, Minister of Industry and Trade Asset Issekeshev told Novosti Kazakhstan in an interview. In recent days, 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.
    
    “I refute this announcement. There has been no decision on attraction of South Korea’s companies to constructing a nuclear power station,” the Minister said on the sidelines of a government meeting in Astana.
    
    According to Novosti Kazakhstan , Kazakhstan has been negotiating on constructing a nuclear power station in the West of its territory with Russia’s RosAtom. In March 2011 RosAtom Head Sergei Kirienko discussed in Astana the draft intergovernmental agreement on constructing a nuclear power station. However, the issue remains open, according to Tengrinews.kz