Joint-Stock Company "National Atomic Company "Kazatomprom" announced operating results for the year 2012. In 2012, the company continued its work in line with the current strategy of development that stipulates the keeping of the current positions on the world uranium market and the building, on the basis of NAC Kazatomprom JSC, the transnational company, diversified in the front end nuclear fuel cycle. In 2012, the company continued its exploration works to increase the resource base of uranium in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

During the year more than 2,000 exploration wells were drilled, that is more than 1,010,000 meters of exploration drilling. In 2012, the pre-commissioning operations at sulfuric acid plant in Zhanakorgan district of Kyzylorda region were over. The plant was constructed to uninterruptedly provide the Kazatomprom's enterprises with the resources required.

During the year 2012 the plant produced 98,000 tons of sulfuric acid.