The Turkish government maintains its plans to build in the coming years, several nuclear power plants in Turkey, despite the debate on nuclear safety has been revived worldwide because of the dangerous developments that lives its atomic plants in Japan after the earthquake last Friday.
In remarks on Saturday from Ankara by the Minister of Natural Resources and Energy, Taner Yıldız, he insisted that the Turkish government maintains its plans to build the first nuclear power plants in the country. "We are determined to continue our atomic power plant projects in Turkey," Yıldız said, he visited the headquarters of the Turkish Agency for Atomic Energy (TAEK), where he discussed with those responsible for the possibility that events in Japan are a threat radioactive for Turkey, which suffered the effects of radioactivity during the disaster Chernobyl in 1986.
The aim is to allow Turkey to double its energy capacity, using any power-by the year 2023. It is expected that state-owned Russian nuclear ROSATOM start building nuclear power Akkuyu in 2013, and the reactor is operational in 2018.
Yıldız's words have been interpreted as a warning to the environmental movement, which has already starred in several protests in Turkey against Turkish government plans to build the first nuclear power plants on Turkish soil, and after the serious events in Japan in recent days have reignited the debate on nuclear safety and aroused the rejection of this kind of power even between governments that had so far been favorable to her, as is the case in Germany, where the executive Angela Merkel has just of a moratorium of three months on plans to extend the life of the country's nuclear plants.
Turkey plans to initially build two nuclear power plants until 2023. In May last year, Turkey and Russia signed an agreement worth U.S. $ 20,000 million to build the first nuclear power plant to be located in Akkuyu, in the Mediterranean province of Mersin. Ankara also held talks since November 2010 with the Japanese government to build a second nuclear power plant at Sinop on the Black Sea coast, after it failed a prior agreement with South Korea's KEPCO.
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