Türkiye

Under Construction 4

Number of Reactors

(as of September 2024)

WNISR in the Media – 26 September 2023 [tr] BBC News Türkçe (United Kingdom) Türkiye’nin 3. nükleer santral planı: ’Anlaşma kesinleşirse Çin’in yurt dışındaki en büyük yatırımı olacak’ Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanı Alparslan Bayraktar, Türkiye’nin üçüncü nükleer santrali için Çin ile yürütülen müzakerelerde önemli mesafe alındığını, «önümüzdeki aylarda» anlaşmanın sonuçlandırılabileceğini açıkladı. 15 September 2023 Ankara’da basın mensuplarıyla bir araya gelen Bayraktar, uzun zamandır devam eden görüşmelerde son aşamaya gelindiğini söyledi. Japon Nikkei haber ajansına konuşan konuya yakın kurumsal bir kaynağa göre, «müzakereler olumlu ilerliyor» ve iki ülkenin (…)
WNISR Essential News – 24 July 2022 WNISR Akkuyu-4 in Turkey: Second Construction Start in a Week for the Russian Nuclear Industry—Anyways 4 WNISR, 24 July 2022 On 21 July 2022, Akkuyu Nuclear announced that first concrete was poured for the base slab of the reactor building of Unit 4 of the Turkish Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, marking the official construction start. The Akkuyu project is based on a series of agreements signed between the Russian and Turkish Governments in May 2010 which provide for the construction of four Russian-designed VVER1200 reactors (Generation III+) for a total capacity of 4.8 GW at the Akkuyu site (…)
WNISR Essential News – 15 February 2022 WNISR – Nuclear Power 2021 Highest Number of Reactor Closures in a Decade 2021 in nuclear numbers—Six reactor startups, ten less than planned at the beginning of the year. Eight closures plus two closure announcements. Ten construction starts. Three reactors in Long-Term Outage (LTO) restarted, two closed. As of 1 January 2022, 412 reactors in operation, 25 in LTO, and 55 under construction. The Year 2021 saw the largest number of nuclear reactor closures in a decade, since 2011, when the Fukushima disaster began. Three of the six remaining units were closed (…)
WNISR Essential News – 18 March 2021 WNISR Construction Start of Akkuyu-3 in Turkey WNISR, 18 March 2021 Presidents Putin and Erdogan assist the construction start of Akkuyu-3 via video link (Photo: Akkuyu Nuclear JSC) First basemat concrete was poured for the foundation of the Akkuyu-3 reactor building on 10 March 2021. The construction start brings to three VVER-1200 AES-2006 reactors being built at the Akkuyu site, located in Mersin province on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan attended the ceremony via video link. (…)
The Annual Reports – 4 September 2018 Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant? The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (GW) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257 GW (net) in 2017, including 157 GW of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (WNISR2018).

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