Turkish Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant construction in Turkey will start in March 2015. A tender for construction of part of the nuclear power plant will be declared in a month, RIA Novosti reports.
The minister called the environmental impact assessment approved on the day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Turkey a friendly gesture to Russia. The assessment contains 3,700 pages that leave no doubts about the construction.
Russian company Akkuyu Nuclear will get a license for power generation, then a license for the construction.
