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Turkey's first nuclear power plant construction to start next spring
October 11, 2014 - 18:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The construction of the nuclear power plant in
Turkey will start next spring, the country's Energy Minister Taner
Yýldýz said, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
"We want to break ground on the Akkuyu nuclear plant in March or
April," Yýldýz said, at a meeting where he also hosted Turkish
students set to travel to Russia for nuclear engineering training.
The nuclear plant, which is to be located near Akkuyu in the southern
province of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast, will require investment
worth $22 billion, Yýldýz added.
While the plant's foundations will be dug in 2015, construction of its
four reactors will not begin until 2016. The plant is planned to
become partly operational in 2020 and fully operational in 2023, the
100-year anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
In 2011, Russian company Rosatom signed an agreement with the Turkish
Energy Ministry to build and operate the nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, Turkey's second planned nuclear plant was awarded to a
Japanese-French consortium last May.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Itochu Corporation, with
France's GDF Suez, will build the 4,800 MW plant in the Black Sea
coastal city of Sinop, at an estimated cost of $22 billion.
Japan is also bidding to build a third plant.
October 11, 2014 - 18:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The construction of the nuclear power plant in
Turkey will start next spring, the country's Energy Minister Taner
Yýldýz said, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
"We want to break ground on the Akkuyu nuclear plant in March or
April," Yýldýz said, at a meeting where he also hosted Turkish
students set to travel to Russia for nuclear engineering training.
The nuclear plant, which is to be located near Akkuyu in the southern
province of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast, will require investment
worth $22 billion, Yýldýz added.
While the plant's foundations will be dug in 2015, construction of its
four reactors will not begin until 2016. The plant is planned to
become partly operational in 2020 and fully operational in 2023, the
100-year anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
In 2011, Russian company Rosatom signed an agreement with the Turkish
Energy Ministry to build and operate the nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, Turkey's second planned nuclear plant was awarded to a
Japanese-French consortium last May.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Itochu Corporation, with
France's GDF Suez, will build the 4,800 MW plant in the Black Sea
coastal city of Sinop, at an estimated cost of $22 billion.
Japan is also bidding to build a third plant.