Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said the country is in talks with Russia about a second nuclear plant, and with China for a third one - and has also held out the ambition of adding 5 GW of small modular reactor capacity to the country's energy system by 2050.
New Nuclear 15 September 2023
The pouring of concrete for the foundation slab of the reactor building at Turkey's Akkuyu unit 4 has been finished - it involved 17,500 cubic metres of concrete mix.
New Nuclear 09 August 2023
Turkey is in talks with Russia, China and South Korea over its planned second and third nuclear power plants, and with the USA and United Kingdom over small modular reactors, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar is reported to have told a media briefing.
New Nuclear 10 July 2023