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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Turkey begins construction of first nuclear plant
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey launches the construction of its first nuclear power plant, a controversial $20-billion project slammed by ecologists, which Ankara hopes will begin a new era of greater energy self-sufficiency.
The nuclear power station, in Akkuyu in Mersin province on the shores of the Mediterranean is being built, like Iran’s first nuclear power plant, by Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom.
“Development cannot happen in a country without nuclear energy,” says Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz at a ceremony attended by the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko and other top officials.
It is the first of three nuclear power plants Turkey currently plans to build to reduce its dependence on importing energy from exporters like Russia and Iran.
— AFP
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