Rosatom is building the turbine halls at the Akkuyu NPP in southern Turkey ahead of schedule and three of the four facilities will be ready in 2023, General Director of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant Anastasiya Zoteeva said on Thursday.
"We are building our turbine halls faster than we planned. I think that by the end of this year, at a first approximation, maybe three of the four turbine halls will already be ready, and next [year] we will complete the fourth," she said on the Russia-24 TV channel.
The ceremony of delivery of the first nuclear fuel for the first unit of the Akkuyu NPP is scheduled for April 27 in Mersin. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to take part in the event via videoconference. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also intends to participate online after canceling a trip to the Akkuyu nuclear power plant due to ill health.
Akkuyu is the first nuclear power plant under construction in Turkey. The project is implemented on the basis of the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation signed between Russia and Turkey on May 12, 2010. Rosatom is the majority shareholder of Akkuyu Nuklear, which has assumed responsibility for the design, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of the plant.
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Based on materials from TASS