Turkey one step closer to second nuclear plant

The Turkish parliament green-lights, just before Easter weekend, the project to build the country’s second nuclear plant in Sinop
07 avril 2015 à 12h45
Énergie
Photo — Fotolia
par Joël Spaes

A week after a blackout affecting part of Turkey, Ankara is showing its determination to diversify the sources of its electricity supply. The Turkish parliament has ratified the intergovernmental agreement with Japan authorising the construction of a plant by a Franco-Turkish consortium at the Sinop site in Northern Turkey. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), partnering with Areva, Itochu and GDF Suez as architect and lead contractor (65% for these four partners), together with Turkish electricity firm EUAS (35%), will build four…

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