Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has approved parliament's ratification of an intergovernmental agreement with Japan to build a nuclear power plant at Sinop. On 1 April, the country's parliament ratified the agreement signed by the two countries in October 2013.
Ownership of the 4800 MWe plant will be split between a consortium of Japan's Mitsubishi and Itochu, and France's Areva and GDF Suez, with 65%, and Turkey's state-run power producer EUAS, with 35%. Areva and Mitsubishi will supply four Atmea 1 reactors.
Construction of the plant is expected to start in 2017, once an environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been approved.
The Sinop plant, on Turkey's Black Sea coast, will be the country's second nuclear power plant - the first is to be built at Akkuyu, on its Mediterranean coast, with Russia's Rosatom.
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