Turkey today granted permission to the management company of the project under construction nuclear plant in Akougiou for the operation of the station’s first power generation unit. The company said in a statement that it had submitted the first set of documents to the Turkish nuclear regulatory authority on March 17 and the second on August 24 to obtain an operating license.
The granting of the license is followed by the start-up, regulation and production procedures, which are the final phases of the construction of the nuclear power plant for its safe operation. “The decision of the Turkish Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NDK) to grant a license for the operation of the first unit of nuclear power plant Akkuyu confirms that we have fulfilled all the requirements of Turkish legislation and international standards for the construction of nuclear plants and we are ready to proceed,” said Anastasia Zoteeva, general director of the project company, Akkuyu Nuclear Company, in a statement by the Russian State Atomic Energy Agency. Rosatom posted on Telegram.
This permission, as she said, is the beginning of “a new, important and responsible stage in the course of the project”, said Zoteeva. The next stage concerns obtaining an operational license for the first energy production unit. This means that nuclear fuel can be loaded into the reactor and testing can begin before production begins.
The Akuyo nuclear power plant, located in the province of Mersina on the Mediterranean coast in southern Turkey, it will have an electricity generation capacity of 35 billion kilowatt hours after the construction of all four units. According to the intergovernmental agreement between Turkey and Russia, the first unit is expected to start generating electricity in 2025.
Source: News Beast
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