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Publish date: September 23, 2005
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Among the important issues to be decided is whether foreign companies should be granted permission to take part in exploitation of “strategic mineral resources”. The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources in June this year presented the bill, which includes proposed certain restrictions on foreigners’ right to participate in mineral resources exploitation.
The proposed restrictions especially apply to the mineral resources, which are of “special importance for the military complex and national security”.
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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