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  • Joint Russian-Turkish NPP deal to be sent to parliament in days

    Joint Russian-Turkish NPP construction deal to be sent to parliament
    in days - Turkish minister

    ANKARA, May 12 (RIA Novosti)

    The agreement on cooperation with Russia in the construction of
    Turkey's first nuclear power plant will be sent for ratification to
    the Turkish parliament within the next 7-10 days, Turkish Energy
    Minister Taner Yildiz said on Wednesday.

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paid an official visit to Ankara on
    Wednesday to sign deals including on the construction of a nuclear
    power plant and the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline.

    Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told journalists in Ankara
    that over $20 billion will be invested in the construction of Turkey's
    first nuclear power plant.

    An international consortium consisting of Russia's nuclear power
    equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport, electricity
    export company Inter RAO UES and Turkish Park Teknik won a tender for
    the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant in June 2009.

    The consortium proposed building four nuclear power units with a
    capacity of 1.2 GW each under a Russian project. The nuclear power
    plant was expected to be built near the Mediterranean port of Mersin
    in the Akkuyu area and put into operation in 2016-2019.

    "The nuclear energy deal opens a new page in cooperation between our
    states," Medvedev said.
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