Kazakhstan to sign cooperation roadmap to 2037 with IAEA

ASTANA. May 20 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan will sign a cooperation roadmap to 2037 with the International Atomic Energy Agency during a visit by Rafael Grossi, the IAEA Director General, to the country on May 25-27, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerlan Zhetibayev said on Wednesday.

"IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi will visit Kazakhstan on May 25-27," Zhetibayev told a briefing at the Foreign Ministry.

He said the visit would include a high-level meeting and the signing of a roadmap for deeper cooperation with the IAEA covering 2026-2036, as well as other agreements on scientific cooperation and nuclear medicine.

Kazakhstan plans to build a cluster of three nuclear power plants. Rosatom will build the first NPP near Lake Balkhash. Its specialists on August 8 started drilling the first exploratory borehole and soil sampling at the site near the village of Ulken in the Almaty region. The government has said China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) might build the second and third plants.