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Civilian Nuclear Power Is Not the Same as Nuclear Weapons

MISLEADING: Kazakhstan is returning to nuclear weapons because it plans a nuclear power plant

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“Kazakhstan is returning to nuclear weapons because it plans a nuclear power plant”

Misleading. Kazakhstan's plan for civilian nuclear power is connected to energy supply and infrastructure, while its nuclear-weapons history concerns the Soviet test site and the arsenal it inherited and gave up. The two issues are politically linked but technically different.

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