The UAE may become the Turkish partner for building the second nuclear power plant Sinop if South Korea wins the tender, Turkish Minister for Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said, Trend reports.
Canada, China, South Korea and Japan are tendering for construction of the Sinop nuclear power plant. The facility is expected to be launched before 2019. Construction of another power plant is planned for 2023.
Akkuyu is the first power plant of Turkey. It has four WWER-1200 reactors (Russia). Turkey and Russia signed the construction deal in May 2010. Each block will produce 1200 MW (4800 MW in total). They will be launched one by one with an interval of a year each.
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