Turkey’s plans to bring online its first nuclear power plant in 2019 are likely to be pushed at least three years back, according to a senior Turkish energy official, Reuters reported on Monday.
With ground-breaking for Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) yet to take place, the project would not be online before at least 2022, the unnamed official said.
“The first reactor can be online at least seven years after the ground-breaking so the 2019-2020 date is impossible,” the newswire quoted the official as saying.
Turkey gave the environmental approval for the construction of Akkuyu NPP in December last year. Ankara commissioned Russia’s …read more
Source: Novinite
