Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the continuation of negotiations with Russia on the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Sinop on the Black Sea and that the first reactor at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Mersin will be launched next year.
Erdogan told CNN Turk: “We are aiming to build a second nuclear power plant in Sinop province. We had talks about this with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and we will continue them.”
He pointed out that the first nuclear reactor at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which the Russian corporation Rosatom is building in the southern province of Mersin, will start operating next year, and that the plant with four reactors will be completed in 2028.
Source: TASS