Voters in Kazakhstan will decide on Sunday whether to allow construction of a nuclear power plant amid worries over the environmental impact as well as the potential reliance on the Central Asian nation’s two giant neighbors — China and Russia — for technology.

Kazakhstan votes on Sunday in a referendum on building the country s first nuclear power station as the world s top uranium

Voting in a referendum to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant began on Sunday, with Korea keenly watching the process as one of the four candidates for the project if the referendum passes.

An employee at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was killed on Friday morning in a car bomb attack that Ukrainian military intelligence said had punished a "war criminal".

Ukraine’s military intelligence said the head of security at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant died when his car exploded.