ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan’s recent selection of Rosatom as consortium leader to build the country’s first nuclear plant is raising worries about the ability of the Russian state-owned nuclear power agency to finance and complete the project.
Kazakhstan’s atomic energy agency said last month that Rosatom had a “slight advantage” over state-owned China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) and so was chosen to lead an unspecified group to build a two-reactor plant in Ulken, a village about 400 kilometers northwest of the commercial hub of Almaty.
