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UPDATE 1-Turkey’s 1st nuclear plant to operate from 2019-Rosatom

2013-02-15 14:58 (UTC)

By Orhan Coskun

ANKARA, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Russia’s Rosatom plans to start construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in mid-2015 and expects the facility to start producing electricity in 2019, its deputy general manager told Reuters on Friday.

‘Our work continues as predicted, there is no delay … The production of nuclear energy physically will start in 2019,’ Kirill Komarov said in an interview in Ankara.

Turkey plans to build nuclear plants over the next decade to reduce its dependence on imported oil and gas.

The $20 billion plant being built by Rosatom at Mersin Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast will have four power units with a total output of 4,800 megawatts (MW).

Turkey is likely to overtake Britain as Europe’s third-biggest electricity consumer within a decade and is in talks regarding a second nuclear plant at Sinop on the Black Sea and also plans a third plant.

It has been in talks with companies from Canada, South Korea and Japan, as well as China, regarding the planned Sinop plant, and France has also announced it would like to be involved.

Komarov said Rosatom would be ready to work with more Turkish companies in the construction of the Akkuyu plant.

(Reporting by Orhan Coskun; writing by Nick Tattersall, Seda Sezer; editing by Jason Neely) Keywords: TURKEY NUCLEAR/RUSSIA

(nicholas.tattersall@thomsonreuters.com)(Reuters Messaging: nicholas.tattersall.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)

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