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  • Japan, France firms to build Turkey nuclear plant: report – The Economic Times

    Japan, France firms to build Turkey nuclear plant: report – The Economic Times

    TOKYO: Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and France’s ArevaBSE 0.27 % are expected to win a $22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, a newspaper said Thursday.

    Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and France's Areva are expected to win a $22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey.
    Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and France’s Areva are expected to win a $22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey.

    Turkey’s energy and natural resources ministry held talks with Japanese government and company officials in Ankara on Wednesday and told them of its readiness to place the order from the two firms, the Nikkei business daily said.

    Under the expected order, Mitsubishi and Areva will build four pressurised water reactors with a combined output of 4.5 million kilowatts in Sinop on the Black Sea, the newspaper said.

    Construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant is to begin in 2017, with the first reactor coming on line by 2023, it said.

    France’s GDF Suez will operate the facility while a joint venture involving Japanese and Turkish companies will sell the power to local utilities, it added.

    A Mitsubishi Heavy spokesman declined to confirm the report.

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan may meet in Turkey in early May with plans to agree on the promotion of nuclear reactor construction, Nikkei said.

    After the two governments sign the agreement, preferred negotiation rights will be officially awarded to the Mitsubishi-Areva alliance, the daily said.

    Japanese, Chinese, South Korean and Canadian nuclear reactor makers had been competing for the project, but Turkey appeared to have given high marks to the Japanese team’s technological prowess, reliability and price, it said.

    The deal marks Japan’s first successful public-private bid for an overseas nuclear plant project since its 2011 nuclear disaster and could build momentum for further nuclear technology exports, it said.

    A huge tsunami crippled cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, sending reactors into meltdown, spewing radioactive materials into surrounding areas.

    via Japan, France firms to build Turkey nuclear plant: report – The Economic Times.

  • Bulgaria: Turkey Not to Build NPP on Bulgarian Border

    Bulgaria: Turkey Not to Build NPP on Bulgarian Border

    Bulgaria: Turkey Not to Build NPP on Bulgarian Border – Report

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    The construction site of what could become a Turkish NPP is said to be visible from the Bulgarian Black Sea village of Rezovo. Map from bivol.bg

    Turkey does not intend to construct a nuclear power plant several kilometers away from its border with Bulgaria, a Bulgarian official has stated, denying earlier reports.

    Konstantin Grebenarov, district governor of Bulgaria’s Burgas, has assured that Turkey only plans to build a thermal power plant

    “Currently there are only private investment intentions for the construction of a thermal power plant there,” Grebenarov told reporters on Monday.

    However, the Bulgaria Greens have expressed concerns over the potential power plant near the Bulgarian border. Even a thermal power plant may pose serious environmental risks, Greens party representative Petko Kovachev has told the Bulgarian National Radio.

    “Our reaction should be very strong if Turkey is building a nuclear power plant near our border without notifying Bulgaria and the European Commission,” Kovachev declared.

    Last week, it emerged that the municipality of the small Black Sea Turkish town of Igneada has received a letter from the central government in Ankara announcing the upcoming construction of a nuclear power plant and thermal power plant on the spot.

    Igneada is a town of some 2 000 inhabitants, located 5 km south of the Rezovska (Rezovo) River, which marks the Bulgarian-Turkish border. The first reports that Turkey was planning to build a nuclear power plant there emerged in 2011.

    Back in April 2011, the Turkish Consul in Burgas Sibel Arkan told Burgas Mayor Dimitar Nikolov that Igneada is only the project with the third highest possibility to become Turkey’s third NPP and the Turkish government is yet to take a decision on its construction.

    In May 2010, Turkey reached an agreement with Russia for the construction of what will become Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in Mersin’s Akkuyu district. Turkey’s second NPP is to be located in Sinop on the Black Sea.

    Locals in both Bulgaria and Turkey are said to be alarmed by the reports that a NPP may be built in Igneada.

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    via Bulgaria: Turkey Not to Build NPP on Bulgarian Border – Report – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency.