A ceremony has been held near the village of Ulken in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan to mark the start of engineering surveys, the first step in establishing a large-scale nuclear power plant there. The surveys will determine the optimal site and prepare design documentation for the future plant.
 

Cameco, Kazatomprom and Orano have all confirmed their production outlook for the remainder of 2025 in recent first-half results announcements.
 

France's Orano and Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom and their Katco joint venture have announced the full implementation of operations at the South Tortkuduk uranium mining site.

Rosatom has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan's Uzatom Atomic Energy Agency to study a possible gigawatt-scale nuclear power plant featuring two or four VVER-1000 units.

Russia's Rosatom has been selected as the leader of an international consortium to build Kazakhstan's first planned nuclear power plant - with China being lined up to build a second one.

Kazakhstan's national atomic company Kazatomprom has secured a credit facility for the construction of a new 800,000 tonnes per year sulphuric acid plant in Taikonur, in the Turkestan region.

A seven-year agreement to supply natural uranium concentrate for the Czech Republic's ČEZ is described by Kazakhstan's Kazatomprom as "a significant expansion of its presence in Europe".

Kazakhstan has officially shortlisted four reactor vendors for the country's first nuclear power plant following a "competitive dialogue process with potential technology suppliers".

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom says it has created a technology for processing liquid radioactive sodium coolant which will allow decommissioning of fast neutron reactors.