BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 8. Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom JSC national atomic company delivered the first batch of nuclear fuel assemblies to China, Trend reports, citing the press service of the company.
“Railroad platforms with 34 shipping and packaging containers, with fuel assemblies for one reload, an equivalent of around 30 tons of low enriched uranium, were delivered to Chinese CGNPC-URC nuclear corporation,” the statement said.
The fuel assemblies were manufactured in the Ulba plant jointly operated by Kazakhstan and China. The plant has a guaranteed market for the next 20 years and has a total output of an equivalent of 200 tons of low-grade uranium per annum.
