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Publish date: January 13, 2005
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Ustinov also says the radiation security in the region is improving as the number of illegal radioactive waste discharges is decreasing. The companies began using more environmentally friendly technologies, although before the Inspection had to punish and force the companies, Regnum reported.
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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