FNCA
Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia

Country Report
Republic of Kazakhstan
2018Kazakhstan Peace Initiatives
 In 2009 the UN supported the initiative of President
N. Nazarbayev to declare August 29 as the International Day
to Abolish Nuclear Weapon.
 On August 29, 2012 during Parliamentary Assembly in
Astana “ATOM” Project was commenced in commemorationof Semipalatinsk Test Site closure in 1991.
 On September 28, 2015 Initiative was proposed towards
achieving nuclear-weapon-free world up to 2045 –100th Anniversary of UN.
Project “ATOM” is oriented at global
support of final and irreversible
abolishing of nuclear weapon
testing and total destructionof nuclear weapon.

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Foreign policy priorities:• Global nuclear safety assurance.
• Joining together efforts to address the challenges
and threats.
• Nonproliferation regime maintaining and peaceful useof nuclear energy.

Global Nuclear Safety
Kazakhstan implemented legal aspectsof non-proliferation policy Fully implements provisions of UN Security
Council Resolution 1540 and supports
strengthening of countermeasures against
illicit trafficking of nuclear and otherradioactive materials.
 As a member of Nuclear Supplier Groupand Zangger Committee, takes all possible
measures to control nuclear export.

November 1, 2018 in UN Headquarters in New YorkFirst Committee (disarmament and international security)
voted for Kazakhstan resolution “Universal Declarationon the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World”

 Among 69 states signed Treaty on theProhibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted
on July 7, 2017 – first international legal
document to prohibit nuclear weapon.

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Research Reactors’ Conversion

Reactor WWR-KConversion of fuel with enrichment of 36% to the levelof 19.75%

Sealing TPC-19 by IAEA inspectors
for spent fuel transportation

Reactor IVG.1M

Reactor IGR

Conversion of fuel with enrichment of 90% to the level 19.75%
in cooperation with American and Russian partners

Full-scale tests of experimental FAof IVG.1M reactor

Preparation to LEU-fueltests of IGR reactor

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Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Unique technology of HEU-LEU reprocessing
Technology is developed for reprocessing IGR
reactor’s highly-enriched fresh uraniumgraphite fuel to reduced uranium-235 content
from 90% to the level of 20%.
Bank of low-enriched uranium
Under activities related to LEU bank operation,
IAEA achieved an agreement with RussianFederation for low-enriched uranium andequipment transportation. IAEA has signed
contracts to purchase LEU, its delivery
is expected in 2019.
FA production for NPPEnterprise is being established with capacityof 200 tons of FA per year. Equipment delivery
and installation is ongoing.

LEU Bank – world’s first international nuclear fuel storage facility.
Established on August 29, 2017 in Ust-Kamenogorsk town
at JSC UMP (NAC “KAZATOMPROM”) site

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Feasibility Study for NPP Construction

JSC “Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Plants”(together with national and foreignscientific-research enterprises) is
engaged in development of marketingpart of Feasibility Study for NPPconstruction.

Район возможногостроительства Балхашской0123кмМагнитуда ра200км
150км

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Площадь АЭСiteразлом [2]разлом [3]Район возможногостроительства Балхашской АЭС

Prospective NPP location

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Studies to Substantiate the Safety of Reactors

ANGARA Test-Bench

EAGLE Test-BenchCORMIT Project (Toshiba, Marubeni, Japan)
Corium and Refractory Materials Interaction Test is preparationand performance of experimental research of core melting
interaction with refractory materials of melting under reactor trap
protective covering
Fukushima Project (Toshiba, Marubeni, Japan)
Modeling and further studying the properties of core melt
solidified fragments of NPP Fukushima-1 reactor with thepurpose to draw up recommendations on mechanisms structure
for solidified fragments reprocessing
EAGLE-3 Project (JAEA, Japan)
Experimental study of cooling processes for molten fuel simulator
in the pool with sodium (EAGLE test bench) and study ofVCG-135 Test-Benchexperimental devices, tested in IGR reactor aimed atsolution of key safety problems addressing at mitigationof consequences in result of core melting accident at fastneutron reactor
SAIGA Project (CEA, France)
Performance of reactor tests for ASTRID generation IVreactor core elements using experimental base of NNC RK
MYRRHA (7-th Framework Program EU FP7-Fission-2012)
Experimental justification of thermal fuel reliability ofMYRRHA research reactor in transient and emergency
modes of operation up to fuel melt

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Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Technologies
 Kazakhstan has become the 9th state in theworld possessing its own tokamak.
 KTM is the world’s first tokamak which isspecially designed for wide range of material
testing researches aimed at developmentof materials for chamber and intrachamber
elements of future thermonuclear reactors
including ITER.
Cooled lithium
diverter modelHall sensor invacuum chamber

KTM Tokamak reactor hall

 Operations are ongoing to prepare KTM
for second physical start-up stage scheduledfor 2019.
 Practical implementation of agreementon cooperation between KTM operating
enterprise (NNC RK) and ITER is started.

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Elimination of Nuclear Weapon Tests Consequences at STS
Comprehensive radioecological surveyof the Test Site area
 Surveyed ~11 100 km2(about 60% of total area).
 Materials of the comprehensive survey atnorthern, western, all south-eastern parts
obtained positive international evaluationof IAEA experts. And survey materials ofsouthern and south-western STS parts
were submitted.
 Survey at Balapan site of 1200 km2
and Sary Uzen site of 300 km2 area
was completed.
 Monitoring of air (6 posts) and water
medium (15 water use objects)
is conducted.

9Radiation Technologies in Agriculture
Production of Super-Water AbsorbentsFacility capacity – up to 200 tons/year.
Potential users – plant breeding, surgery, hygiene.
RK Innovative Patent was obtained.
Pilot batch of the absorbent
was produced.

Researches on food products radiation
processing wheat, buckwheat, rice, flour, meat products andcanned meat.

Standards harmonization on food products
radiation processing
 National regulatory framework for food productprocessing is required for coordination withinternational standards and rules of FAO-WHO,guidelines of WTO, CU, EAEU and EEC, in compliance with Kazakhstan’s interests and responsibility.
 In 2020, IAEA TC project KAZ2018006 relatedto food products processing by ionizing radiationis planned.
Laboratory of ESR-spectrometry
for absorbed dose monitoring

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