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JSC National Atomic Co. Kazatomprom 
11 November 2010 
 
 
November 12, 2010 
               city of Aktau 
 
 
                                  PRESS-RELEASE 
  COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT FOR PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION OF BN-350 REACTOR 
                                  SPENT FUEL 
 
The official ceremony on the occasion of completion the project for BN-350 spent 
fuel packaging and disposal of specialized transport containers with spent fuel 
(overpacks) for long-term storage was held. The experts from USA, Great Britain, 
special IAEA representatives, members of Mangistau Regional Akimat, Kazatomprom, 
mass-media and the utility staff participated in this ceremony. 
 
BN-350 reactor commissioned in Aktau in 1972 is the first in the world and only 
one pilot commercial fast breeder reactor in Kazakhstan. In spite of the fact 
that reactor  has 20 years lifetime it has been operated for 27 years providing 
population of Mangistau region and industrial enterprises with electric energy, 
water and heat supply. In 1999 the reactor was shutdown and the operations for 
its decommissioning were started up. Safety of spent fuel used in the reactor is 
an essential part of BN-350 decommissioning project as approved by government 
authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 
 
This project was aimed at packaging and loading of BN-350 spent fuel into 
special transport containers for storage. As the most significant aspect it was 
ensuring of safety during spent fuel transportation and storage according to the 
rules and criteria common at the territory of Kazakhstan that was directly 
supervised by IAEA representatives. 
 
The process of spent fuel handling consists of two stages. The first stage was 
implemented during the period of December, 1998, to June, 2001. It included the 
activity for packaging of spent fuel assemblies in special sealed six- and four 
place containers. As a result 479 containers with spent fuel were packed. 
 
The second stage included placement of BN-350 spent fuel for long-term storage 
in metal-and-concrete containers of dual purpose used both as a base element of 
overpack and as a storage container. The transport container was manufactured in 
accordance with the rules and regulations in the field of nuclear energy use and 
IAEA recommendations. 
One more stage is the so called an intermediate stage when the spent fuel is 
temporary stored in transport containers at the special open ground of 
MAEC-Kazatomprom before its disposal for long-term storage. The containers from 
the plant are loaded in wagons and disposed for long-term storage to Baikal-1 
site in Kurchatov town. 
 
All operations for handling of spent fuel were done upon thorough analysis and 
calculations basing on the developed programs containing regulatory provisions, 
procedure and regimes of technological operations and storing of spent fuel 
which provide unconditional security of personnel, population and environment at 
normal storage functioning and in case of any possible emergency situation. 
 
Thus the implementation of this project allowed keeping of BN-350 reactor in 
nuclear secure state. Kazakhstan meets all commitments with respect of reactor 
decommissioning. 
 
The Project has being carried out on multilateral basis: financing and technical 
assistance was rendered by US Department of Energy, US Department of State, 
Service Center of National Nuclear Security Administration of US Department of 
Energy, Safeguards and control was provided by IAEA and by Ministry of Industry 
and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Institute of Atomic Energy 
under National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, MAEC-Kazatomprom from Kazakhstani 
side and by Medium-duty Engineering Design Bureau JSC, JSC "PO "SEVMASH", JSC 
"Energotex", Russian Federal Nuclear Center from the Russian side. 
 
MAEC-Kazatomprom LLP  is a diversified enterprise supplying the region with 
electric energy, heat, drinking, hot and technical water. 
Production technique is based on desalination of Caspian water. Initially MAEC 
was designed and built as a unified complex including heat power plants, 
distillation desalination units and fast breeder reactor BN-350 (currently being 
decommissioned). Beginning from 2003 it forms the part of Kazatomprom. 25 
subdivisions with staff consisting generally more than 4 thousand people are 
operating this industrial complex. 
www.maek.kz 
 
JSC NAC KAZATOMPROM is a national operator of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 
import and export of uranium and its compounds, rare metals, nuclear fuel for 
nuclear power plants, special equipment, technologies and dual-use materials. 
The Company's main activities include geological exploration, uranium 
production, output of nuclear fuel cycle products, construction of reactors and 
nuclear power plants, non-ferrous metallurgy and production of construction 
materials, power industry, science, social welfare and personnel training. At 
present, over 26,000 people are employed by the Company. Kazatomprom is one of 
the top uranium world producers. 
www.kazatomprom.kz 
 
Contact details for investors (Eurobonds): 
Meirzhan Yussupov 
Head of Treasury 
?el:. +7 /727/  258 39 05 
?el../Fax: +7 /727/ 250 35 41 
e-mail: myussupov@kazatomprom.kz 
 
Meruyert Bekturganova 
Treasury 
?el:. +7 /727/  258 39 05 
?el../Fax: +7 /727/ 250 35 41 
e-mail: mbekturganova@kazatomprom.kz 
 
 
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            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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