Japan's Atomic Energy Agency and Kazakhstan's National Nuclear Centre have signed a memorandum of cooperation to undertake a fourth phase of the EAGLE project — a long-running joint research programme on core safety experiments for sodium-cooled fast reactors — marking a new chapter in nuclear technology collaboration between the two countries
NNC RK Director General Erlan Batyrbekov and JAEA President Masanori Koguchi signed the agreement, which initiates the EAGLE-4 project covering several in-pile experiments at NNC RK's IGR research reactor, twelve out-of-pile experiments at the EAGLE test bench, and a series of small-scale tests