China Looks to Squeeze Russia Out of Kazakh Nuclear Deal

The race to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant appears to be tightening. The Russian nuclear entity Rosatom has long appeared to have the inside track on the construction contract, but the China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) is coming up on the outside, hoping to win it at the wire. The head of China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration Dong Baotong made a push to secure the deal for CNNC during talks in Astana with the head of the Kazakh Atomic Energy Agency (KAEA) Almasadam Satkaliev, the Kursiv news outlet reported…