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TURKEY PLANS TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST ARMENIAN PLANT
Hurriyet Daily News
Oct 28 2011
Turkey
Energy Minister Taner Yıldız says Turkey's debut nuclear plant will
be the strongest building in the country. AA photo.
Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has said he ordered the
country's nuclear authority to measure radioactivity in the east
after the deadly earthquake in Van province for fear of leaks from
a nuclear plant in Armenia.
"I asked the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority to immediately conduct
tests," Yıldız told a group of journalists in Ankara while speaking
at a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hurriyet Daily News.
Turkey is preparing to take legal action against all superannuated
nuclear power plants across the world, including Metzamor in Armenia,
the minister said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will receive from Turkey
complaints about dozens of nuclear plants across the world that have
already exceed an age of 40, Yıldız said.
"Some countries are announcing that they are putting an end to nuclear
power and closing superannuated plants, but they are continuing to
build new ones," he said. "This is not right."
However, the minister declined to specify any country by name.
Siemens, Germany's biggest nuclear energy company, was turning the
page on nuclear energy, the group's chief executive told the Der
Spiegel weekly in September.
The government in Germany had earlier announced it will withdraw from
nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan
caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that took more than
20,000 lives.
Turkey's to-be-built nuclear plant near the town of Akkuyu in the
southern province of Akkuyu would be "the strongest building in the
country," Yıldız said. As risk grows, security measures grow too,
he said.
"We will invest some $20 billion there. It will become an important
part of the overall energy system and we will still bear risks. Sorry,
but neither the state nor the private sector would take such a risk.
One should be crazy, otherwise. We will not let it happen. No need
to worry about it."
Russian state-owned nuclear power company ROSATOM is the contractor
for the project.
The country plans two more power plants, one in the northern province
of Sinop and another in the Thracian region but talks with contractors
for these projects were interrupted by the Fukushima accident.
From: Baghdasarian
Hurriyet Daily News
Oct 28 2011
Turkey
Energy Minister Taner Yıldız says Turkey's debut nuclear plant will
be the strongest building in the country. AA photo.
Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has said he ordered the
country's nuclear authority to measure radioactivity in the east
after the deadly earthquake in Van province for fear of leaks from
a nuclear plant in Armenia.
"I asked the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority to immediately conduct
tests," Yıldız told a group of journalists in Ankara while speaking
at a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hurriyet Daily News.
Turkey is preparing to take legal action against all superannuated
nuclear power plants across the world, including Metzamor in Armenia,
the minister said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will receive from Turkey
complaints about dozens of nuclear plants across the world that have
already exceed an age of 40, Yıldız said.
"Some countries are announcing that they are putting an end to nuclear
power and closing superannuated plants, but they are continuing to
build new ones," he said. "This is not right."
However, the minister declined to specify any country by name.
Siemens, Germany's biggest nuclear energy company, was turning the
page on nuclear energy, the group's chief executive told the Der
Spiegel weekly in September.
The government in Germany had earlier announced it will withdraw from
nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan
caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that took more than
20,000 lives.
Turkey's to-be-built nuclear plant near the town of Akkuyu in the
southern province of Akkuyu would be "the strongest building in the
country," Yıldız said. As risk grows, security measures grow too,
he said.
"We will invest some $20 billion there. It will become an important
part of the overall energy system and we will still bear risks. Sorry,
but neither the state nor the private sector would take such a risk.
One should be crazy, otherwise. We will not let it happen. No need
to worry about it."
Russian state-owned nuclear power company ROSATOM is the contractor
for the project.
The country plans two more power plants, one in the northern province
of Sinop and another in the Thracian region but talks with contractors
for these projects were interrupted by the Fukushima accident.
From: Baghdasarian