The Rosatom state corporation's company has received a license to build the fourth unit of the Turkish Akkuyu nuclear power plant. This was announced on Friday by the press service of Akkuyu nuclear power plant JSC.
"The nuclear regulatory council has agreed on the decision to issue a license in favor of Akkuyu nuclear JSC [an enterprise of Rosatom state corporation] for the construction of unit 4 of the Akkuyu NPP [Turkey]. The license allows to start all construction and installation works at the block, including nuclear safety facilities," the statement reads.
The application package for the license was sent to the Nuclear regulatory agency of Turkey (NDK) on May 12, 2020. Following the review of the application documents, the Nuclear regulatory agency's board approved the issuance of a license for the construction of the unit. It allows to start construction of all facilities of the reactor and turbine islands of the power unit.
"With the receipt of the license for the construction of unit 4 we have completed the licensing process for the construction of our four-unit nuclear power plant. <...> We are now ready to start work on all four power units. At the beginning of the next year we will start constructing the foundation slab of the nuclear island buildings," commented Anastasiya Zoteeva, director-general of Akkuyu nuclear JSC.
Akkuyu NPP is a nuclear power plant under construction on the southern coast of Turkey. It is being constructed according to a Russian design, which includes the construction and commissioning of four power units with VVER-1200-type reactors. The agreement on the construction of the plant was signed in May 2010. Today the Akkuyu NPP construction site is one of the largest nuclear construction projects in the world. More than 13 thousand people are working on the construction site every day, more than 1 000 units of construction equipment and vehicles are involved, including more than 70 construction cranes
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