Rosatom has started negotiations with Türkiye for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Sinop on the Black Sea coast, Aleksey Likhachev, the general director of the Russian state atomic energy agency Rosatom said Wednesday.
The Sinop nuclear power plant will be the country's second nuclear project, following the country’s first nuclear plant, the under-construction Akkuyu project.
An agreement for the Akkuyu plant was signed in 2010 and next year the first reactor is schedule to come online.
Türkiye has prioritized energy security as a result of the energy crisis, putting nuclear power at the forefront of its energy plans.
Likhachev told Russian state television Rossiya-24 that the Sinop site is suitable for the construction of a large-scale plant with four power units.
He also revealed that talks with Turkish business partners have begun to form technological alliances and to launch an investment policy to shape the Turkish energy market.
Reporting by Emre Gurkan Abay in Moscow
Writing by Zeynep Beyza Kilic
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