Erdogan confirms that the four reactors of the Akkuyu nuclear plant will start up in 2028

27 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed this Thursday from Ankara that the four reactors at the Akkuyu nuclear plant, located in the province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast, will be commissioned by the year 2028.

“We are building a station with four reactors with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts each. The project cost 20,000 million dollars. The station’s power units will be commissioned by 2028,” he said during the first fuel delivery ceremony. to the center

Erdogan, who has participated in a virtual format from Ankara, has specified that more than 300 Turkish engineers have been trained in Russia to work at the plant, as well as in the still flourishing nuclear industry in Turkey, TASS has collected.

The general director of the Russian energy company Rosatom, Alexei Lijachev, delivered this Thursday to the Turkish Ministry of Energy an official document certifying the status of a nuclear facility at Akkuyu, in the Turkish province of Mersin.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a videoconference conversation in which he congratulated his Turkish counterpart on his efforts to bring forward the country’s first nuclear power plant.

“This is a flagship project. It brings mutual economic benefits and, of course, helps to strengthen the multifaceted partnership between our two states, which is based on the principles of good neighborliness, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests,” he said. stressed earlier Putin.

Russia and Turkey signed an agreement in 2010 to build in Akkuyu, in the Turkish province of Mersin, a nuclear plant that will have four reactors of 1,200 megawatts each. Ankara thus hopes to reduce local gas consumption for electricity generation with the aim of increasing its exports.