site.btaTurkiye Expects to Fully Launch Akkuyu NPP in 3-4 Years

Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar met with Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev in Moscow on Wednesday, the Turkish news website Son Dakika reported.

Bayraktar is in Moscow to participate in the Russian Energy Week.

Turkiye expects to fully launch the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in 3-4 years, Bayraktar said during his speech at the Russian Energy Week.

"Our plan is to produce electricity from the first reactor in 2024. We hope that in the coming years, in the next 3-4 years, we will put the whole plant into operation," he said, as quoted by Russian media.

During Bayraktar and Likhachev's meeting, issues related to the implementation of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project in southern Turkiye were discussed, as well as the importance of nuclear energy in achieving Turkiye's goal of carbon neutrality by 2053, Son Dakika said.

Akkuyu is the first nuclear power plant to be built in Turkiye. The project is being implemented on the basis of the intergovernmental cooperation agreement signed between Russia and Turkiye on May 12, 2010.