ANKARA, November 17. /TASS/. Turkey plans to commission the first reactor of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in 2025 and begin to generate up to 64 GW of electricity within a year, according to the country’s development plan for 2025 endorsed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"Works to complete the construction of Akkuyu NPP, Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, continue. Nuclear fuel was delivered to the site in 2023. It is planned to commission the first unit of the power plant, which has an overall capacity of 4,800 MW and will meet around ten percent of Turkey’s electricity demand when the construction is over, in 2025," the document said.
According to the development program, in 2025, the country plans to generate an extra of 1,200 MW of electricity, including up to 64 GW by the nuclear plant.
"The construction of Akkuyu NPP will continue, with pilot electricity generation beginning at the first power unit," it noted. Apart from that, it is planned to complete talks on intergovernmental agreements on projects for new nuclear power plants.
Akkuyu NPP is the first nuclear power plant being built in Turkey. The Akkuyu NPP project includes four power units equipped with Generation 3+ VVER reactors of the Russian design. The capacity of each power unit will be 1,200 MW. Akkuyu NPP is the first project in the global nuclear industry being implemented according to the Build-Own-Operate model.