Turkey’s nuclear power plans have never gone smoothly. A first project developed in the 1990s at Akkuyu foundered overfears of seismic risk following a major earthquake in 1999. Subsequent attempts to revive the project took until 2010, whenan agreement was finally inked with Russia’s Rosatom for a site hosting 4.8 GW of nuclear capacity. Plans for two moreplants of similar size followed based on inter-governmental agreements with Japan and China.
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