Turkey offered Russia to build two more nuclear power plants
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a meeting in Sochi, invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider building two more Russian-designed nuclear power plants in the country. Writes about this “Kommersant”.
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov only confirmed to the journalists the fact of the conversation about two nuclear power plants in Turkey. We are talking about two long-standing projects in Sinop and Igneada on the Black Sea coast, and the first one looks the most elaborated, according to the newspaper’s interlocutors in the industry. Since 2008, preparatory work has been carried out there for the construction of a nuclear power plant and a nuclear technology center. Investors from Japan and France had previously applied for these sites, but Ankara refused, since during the negotiations the cost doubled, to $ 44 billion.
The project for a nuclear power plant in Igneada, located 10 km from Bulgaria, is also not moving forward. In 2014, Turkey signed an agreement with Chinese and American investors to begin exclusive negotiations on the construction of a nuclear power plant. The launch of the station was scheduled for 2023. The progress of the project was not reported.
According to Rosatom, the state corporation is “always open to discussing opportunities that expand our cooperation with Turkish partners” and will be able to use the useful developments of the Akkuyu NPP project, which has been building since 2018 on the Mediterranean coast. As Erdogan stated, the first block will be launched in 2022.
In March, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the construction of the third power unit of the Akkuyu NPP. According to the Turkish leader, the project will make a significant contribution to strengthening Turkey’s energy security and provide Turkish consumers with inexpensive and environmentally friendly electricity.
Russia and Turkey agreed to build and operate a nuclear power plant at the Akkuyu site in 2010. The object is being built according to a concession scheme, when the Russian side acts simultaneously as the builder and owner of the foreign object.
Source: lenta.ru