Unsurprisingly, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president, comfortably won. Official results show that 71% of voters cast their ballots in favour of building a nuclear power station. Companies from at ...
Almost three-quarters of Kazakhstan voters said “yes” in a nationwide referendum held on 6 October, which asked citizens if they agreed with the construction of a nuclear power plant.
The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear weapons and it is estimated that around 456 bombs were dropped there in total ...