Akkuyu licensing

Russian party established a company, “Akkuyu NGS Elektrik ÜretimA. Their findings will be used to prepare a package of licensing documents and for making of preliminary engineering decisions, as well as used as baseline data for further investigations. Akkuyu, since the site was already licensed, but licensing was also proceeding for Sinop.

Dmitriy Pokidyshev, Chief Licensing and Technical Coordinator of the AKKUYU NPP JSC Project Company, made a detailed presentation about the status of the first Turkish nuclear power plant construction process. Technical Coordinator in terms of the Akkuyu NPP power generation represented the Project Company AKKUYU NPP JSC.

The Project company Akkuyu NPP JSC is established pursuant to the bi-lateral Agreement signed on 12 May 2010 between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the Government of the Russian Federation and is entrusted with the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of four NPP Units at the site of Akkuyu on the Mediterranean Sea shore. First, Rosatom, through the local SPV (Akkuyu NPP JSC), pays the contractor, Atomstroyexport JSC, to build the reactor.

VVER type. Capacity of each power unit of the Turkish NPP will be 1200 MW. Licensing is proceeding fast in Akkuyu, said Yamac, at a conference in Ankara. As you may already have known, the Akkuyu project was granted permission based on a license dated 1976.

Akkuyu NPP Power Generation in the development of its nuclear power plant project in Turkey. The presentations focused on the licensing regulations for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant and attracted 200 representative from domestic and international companies. Russia is a partner in the new plant being constructed in Akkuyu, expected to cost about $20 billion USD. The Akkuyu Nuclear company will build the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in the province of Mersin in southern Turkey.

October that the project was going to be operational by mid-2020, a delay of about 18 months from the initial start-up date.