The program is being drawn up by the country's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
Earlier on Monday the Kazakh government held a session, chaired by Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov, to discuss nuclear energy development issues.
Opening the session, Akhmetov said: "Global trends have made nuclear energy a modern and dynamically developing sector of the economy; Kazakhstan has all the prerequisites for alternative sources of electric energy supply."
Uranium mining in Kazakhstan has increased almost five-fold from 1997, reaching 4,360 tons in 2005.
In Soviet times, Kazakhstan produced most of the uranium for the USSR's nuclear power infrastructure. Russia's nuclear chief has been calling for the Soviet nuclear system to be restored.
Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, said recently: "we must not only restore, but expand the technological chain of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building."
Kiriyenko proposes forming a national holding for the nuclear energy sector, to incorporate the whole technological cycle of the civic nuclear energy.
