Kazakhstan rejects to take back more than 600 tons of radioactive coal, the Kyrgyz government said.

Almaty. April 19. Silkroadnews – Kazakhstan rejects to take back 618.6 tons of radioactive coal supplied to Kyrgyzstan, KyrTAG reports.

“We have already received the court’s resolution saying the radioactive coal shall be moved out of Kyrgyzstan. Our ministry of emergency situations has taken all the measures to execute the court’s resolution, but Kazakhstan rejects to take it back. Now we are waiting for clarification on the court’s order execution. The case is still in the court,” the deputy prime minister of Kyrgyzstan Oleg Pankratov said at the meeting of the committee on fuel and energy complex and subsurface use on Tuesday.

According to him, all the measurements on the coal are being taken, it is not dangerous.

To remind, last December the first deputy general director of JSC “Electric stations” Berdibek Borkoev reported on the proposal to bury the radioactive coal supplied from Kazakhstan in Kara-Balta.

In 2013, on the basis of a contract made for Bishkek CHP plant the coal was purchased from the Kulan field. As explained by the deputy director general of JSC “Electric stations” Askaraly Kaybaliev, “after all those events that raised regarding the coal, the one that was imported from Kazakhstan under a contract with “Electric stations” on the Bishkek CHP plant was completely taken out of the territory of Kyrgyzstan, that is transferred to Kazakhstan”.

He also said that more than 600 tons that are now allocated in the territory of Bishkek CHP is the coal supplied to the Seraphimovsky nursing home for elderly people and Ibraimovsky orphan home. This coal, as noted A.Kaybaliev, was temporarily placed at the Bishkek central heating and power plant for storage and issue of moving the coal out from the territory of the Kyrgyz capital is being solved at the government level.