World’s No. 1 Uranium Producer Wins Partial Victory at Regulator
- Acrimonious IAEA meeting approves Kazakhstan resolution
- Kazakhstan chides Iran over ‘wasting’ the time of diplomats
Uranium concentrate in Kyzemshek, Kazakhstan.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Kazakhstan, the dominant supplier to global uranium markets, scored a partial victory in its effort to win the same rights held by 160 other nations to regulate the international nuclear-fuel trade.
International Atomic Energy Agency members voted Friday to study the plight shared by the Central Asian nation and 16 other countries currently excluded from serving on the Vienna-based regulator’s board of governors. Kazakhstan, which produces more than two-fifths of the world’s uranium, issued a legal demand last month in a bid to rectify the situation.