New Delhi: India and Kazakhstan  have decided to renew the Civil Nuclear Deal after 2014. which includes Supply of Uranium to Indian Nuclear Reactors for Power Generation and Research.  Kazakhstan has 15 per cent of the world’s uranium resources and became the leading uranium- producing country since 2009.
India and Kazakhstan  have civil nuclear cooperation since January 2009 when Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Kazakh nuclear company KazAtomProm signed an MoU to supply uranium for Indian reactors.
In 2011,  Kazakh President Nazarbaev announced that his country would supply India with 2100 tonnes of uranium and was ready to do more.
India has 20 operating nuclear units with five more, including a fast breeder, under construction. Another 39 are planned or firmly proposed. However, the country has only modest indigenous uranium resources.
In 2010, the NPCIL reported that it had imported some 868 tonnes of uranium so far that year, including 300 tonnes of natural uranium from Kazakh nuclear company KazAtomProm.
India and Kazakhstan have also discussed projects of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), which has already acquired 25 per cent stake in the Satpayev Oil Block in the Caspian Sea, with India seeking Kazakhstan’s support for an important bid that OVL is making for a stake in the Kashagan oil field.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Kazakh counterpart Erlan Idrissov held comprehensive talks on various regional and international issues of mutual interest and reviewed status of bilateral ties in key areas of defence, civil nuclear energy and hydrocarbons.
“We hold similar views on most pressing global problems. We agreed that the menace of international terrorism has to be fought by the international community collectively and that we must also make bilateral efforts in this direction,” Khurshid said at a joint press conference  with Idrissov.