Kazatomprom to buy stake in Russia's largest uranium enrichment facility

ASTANA. March 30. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ National nuclear power company Kazatomprom JSC will buy shares of the Russia's largest enrichment facility in Novouralsk. A corresponding agreement was signed on Wednesday in Astana.

The document is a part of Russian-Kazakh program on cooperation in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear energy. According to Head of Rosatom Sergey Kirienko, a big commercial joint venture on uranium enrichment is planned to start to operate on Russian territory at the end of the year.