PLANS TO develop a nuclear energy industry suffered a severe set back in September when a tender to build the country's first power plant received just one bid.To make matters worse,the bid came from a consortium of local Park Teknik Group and Russia's state-owned Inter RAO UES and Atomstroyexport-the shift to nuclear had been seen as a way of reducing the country's dependence on Russian energy supplies.In 2007,natural gas met over 31% of Turkish primary energy supply,with imports from Russia accounting for 64% of consumption.And with energy consumption rising by an average of 6% a year for the past five years,and few domestic resources to meet demand,energy imports are expected to grow.
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