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 | | The Pricaspian mining-metallurgical combine on Mangyshlak peninsula was one of the largest producers of natural uranium, and the Oskemen Ulba Works was a key facility for the Russian nuclear fuel cycle, supplying beryllium, zirconium and other materials and some components used in nuclear power reactors. |
 | | The principal centers of the Kazakh defense industry are Petropavlovsk in the north of the country, Oral and Aqtau in the west, Oskemen - east, Akmola in the center of Republic, and the capital, Almaty, in the south. |
 | | Historically, the facility at Oskemen produced nearly all of the UO2 powder and most of the fuel pellets in the Soviet Union. |
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