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Another agreement on uranium supply and Japanese help in upgrading the Ulba fuel fabrication plant was signed in May 2008 . Kazatomprom seeks to move from a supplier of raw materials to the sale of its uranium as fabricated fuel assemblies . Then negotiations began on a bilateral agreement , in particular , on nuclear cooperation between Kazakhstan and Japan . In May 2011 , a high-level intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy entered into force . 24
In March 2009 , Japanese companies Kansai , Sumitomo and Nuclear Fuel Industries signed an agreement with Kazatomprom to process uranium for the Kansai plants . In March 2010 , a joint venture was established with Sumitomo : Summit Atom Rare Earth , and in June - Kazatomprom and Toshiba Corp . agreed to set up a rare-earth metals joint venture .
In June 2012 and February 2013 , between the Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center ( NNC ) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency ( JAEA ) were signed research and development agreements relating to the design , construction and operation of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor ( HTR ) about 50 MW at Kurchatov , Kazakhstan . This is marked as a national project . In June 2015 , an agreement was signed between NNC and JAEA on the third stage of the project for the study of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor ( SFR ) in Kazakhstan . 25
In October 2015 , another agreement was signed between Kazatomprom , the Japan Atomic Energy Company ( JAPC ) and Marubeni Utility Services on the development of cooperation in the construction , and financing of the nuclear power plant , including consultations , exchange of experience in the field of public communications , organization of technical seminars and expert meetings on safety issues and staff training .
As for Uzbekistan , in September 2006 , a Japanese-Uzbek intergovernmental agreement was signed aimed at financing the development of Uzbek uranium . In October 2007 , Itochu Corporation
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Hisane Masaki , “ New Energy Fuels Japan ' s Diplomacy : From the Middle East to Central Asia ,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 5 , Issue 5 ( May 2 , 2007 ): 7 . 25 “ Uranium and Nuclear Power in Kazakhstan ,” World Nuclear Association ,
https :// www . world-nuclear . org / information-library / country-profiles / countries-gn / kazakhstan . aspx ( accessed August 11 , 2020 ).
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