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South Korea to develop

nuclear in Kazakhstan

SOUTH KOREA KOREA Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) on with small modular reactor (SMR) developer
June 28 signed a memorandum of understand- NuScale to investigate the deployment of SMRs
ing (MoU) with Kazakhstan Nuclear Power in Kazakhstan. NuScale said the agreement
Plants, owned by the Samruk-Kazyna National would see the companies share technical exper-
Welfare Fund, to cooperate on the introduction tise as they “examine the value NuScale’s small
of nuclear power in Kazakhstan, World Nuclear modular reactor technology could bring to the
News reported on June 29. country.”
The two companies have agreed to cooper- The US company is set to support Kazakhstan
ate in new nuclear power plant development, Nuclear Power Plants in evaluating its technol-
the application of nuclear technology, human ogy, “including nuclear power plant engineering,
resource training and the promotion of nuclear construction, commissioning, operation and
power plants to the public. maintenance, and project-specific studies and
The MoU was signed during a visit by a design work.”
Kazakh delegation led by Vice Minister of Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Plants is currently
Energy Zhandos Nurmaganbetov to South preparing to submit a proposal for a new nuclear
Korea. power plant to Kazakhstan in the third quarter of
KHNP noted that it submitted a proposal to this year. It is eyeing the construction of two new
Kazakhstan in 2019 for the construction of two nuclear power plants with a total capacity of up
1,000 MWe or 1,400 MWe nuclear power plants. to 2,800 MWe.™
In December, Kazakhstan Nuclear Power
Plants signed a memorandum of cooperation

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