"Kazakhstan has not been approached by Libya, and we are not prepared to sell nuclear fuel to Libya," Ergali Bayadilov, head of the republic's Atomic Energy Agency, said.
Kazakhstan has a quarter of the world's uranium reserves and produces 80 percent of the nuclear fuel used in atomic reactors in the CIS. "Kazakhstan strictly observes the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty," the Atomic Energy Agency said.
The JANA report said Libya would purchase "amounts" of radioactive uranium under a cooperation framework.
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