BISHKEK. Sept 16 (Interfax-AVN) - The World Bank will allot USD5m to Kyrgyzstan to finance a project on rehabilitating storage facilities for uranium wastes, the Kyrgyz government press service told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The money will be directed primarily to the rehabilitation of storage facilities near the town of Maili-Suu in the Jalal- Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan," the press service said.
The country will also soon be granted USD370,000 to carry out a feasibility study on the Maili-Suu storage facilities, the press service said. The same amount of money will be allocated for conducting a feasibility study on rehabilitation of the Kajisai storage facilities in the Issyk-Kul region in northern Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan has 44 facilities for storing uranium wastes and 28 dumps from uranium extraction and processing. According to World Bank estimates, the rehabilitation of uranium storage facilities in Kyrgyzstan will cost over USD20m.