A Kazakh-Chinese joint venture has made its first delivery of fuel assemblies to nuclear power stations in China, uranium giant Kazatomprom has said. The delivery is an important landmark in a growing atomic energy relationship between Beijing and Astana. In a December 7 statement, Kazatomprom said that 30 tons of low-enriched uranium (LEU) had been sent by rail in the form of nuclear fuel assemblies (large bunches of fuel rods) to China where they had been “received by their end user," the China General Nuclear Power Corporation. The…
