Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant

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Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
location
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (Turkey)
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
Coordinates 36 ° 8 '40 "  N , 33 ° 32' 28"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 8 '40 "  N , 33 ° 32' 28"  E
Country: TurkeyTurkey Turkey
Data
Owner: ROSATOM nuclear export export
Operator: ROSATOM nuclear export export
Project start: 2016
Commercial operation: not before 2022Template: future / in 2 years

Reactors under construction (gross):

1 (1200 MW)

Reactors in planning (gross):

3 (3600 MW)
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant ( Turkish Akkuyu Nükleer Enerji Santrali ) is a nuclear power plant under construction on the Mediterranean coast between Aydıncık and Silifke in the Mersin Province in southern Turkey .

Development and construction history

In the early 1970s and late 1990s there were plans for a nuclear power plant (NPP) at this location. They were discarded in 2000 and reconsidered in 2006.

A Turkish-Russian agreement was signed in May 2010. According to this, the Russian company Atomstroiexport is to build the NPP and initially operate it. The construction costs were given as 20 billion US dollars. The majority of the power plant will later be owned and operated by Turkish companies.

Four units with reactors of the VVER-1200 (AES-2006) type were planned, which according to the original schedule should be built from 2013 and commissioned from 2016 and 2019 at intervals of one year.

At the beginning of 2013 it was announced that a contract had been signed with the start of construction in spring 2014. According to this schedule, electricity should be fed in for the first time in 2019. The last (fourth) block should be completed in 2023. The construction costs should be "up to 25 billion US dollars".

The nuclear power plant operators were guaranteed to purchase the electricity generated for 12.35 US cents per kWh. The purchase guarantee relates to 70% of the electricity generated by the first two blocks, and 30% for the third and fourth blocks. The purchase guarantee relates to a period of 15 years. The rest of the electricity is to be sold freely.

After those responsible had already announced in October 2013 that commissioning would be delayed until mid-2020, a further delay in commissioning became known in February 2014: Since the environmental impact report has not yet been reviewed, the start of construction will be delayed to 2016 and the Commissioning to the year 2021. In March 2015 the date of commissioning was postponed to 2022.

Foundation stone laid in 2015

On April 14, 2015, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız officially laid the foundation stone, accompanied by protests.

In November 2015, a few days after a Sukhoi Su-24 of the Russian air force was shot down by a Turkish air force interceptor, the Russian President Putin said that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project would be spared sanctions until further notice. On December 9, 2015, the Reuters news agency reported that Rosatom had stopped construction. Rosatom and the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources immediately denied this.

Construction started in 2018

On the occasion of a state visit to Ankara on April 3, 2018, Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdoğan gave the “go-ahead” for the construction of this first nuclear power plant in Turkey, which is being carried out under the auspices of Russian Rosatom .

criticism

Map of the earthquake prone areas of Turkey

There have been strong earthquakes in the region in the past. Critics consider the Akkuyu site to be extremely prone to earthquakes due to its proximity to a tectonic fault . The design of the nuclear power plant for an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale appears questionable in view of potentially stronger earthquakes.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Akkuyu nuclear power plant has one under construction and three planned blocks :

Reactor block Reactor type net
power 		gross
power 		start of building Network
synchronization 		Commercialization
of essential operation 		switching off
processing
Akkuyu-1 VVER V-509 1200 MW 1114 MW 3rd April 2018 (Planned for 2023)Template: future / in 3 years
Akkuyu-2 VVER V-509 1200 MW 1114 MW (Planned for 2019) [obsolete] (Planned for 2023)Template: future / in 3 years
Akkuyu-3 VVER V-509 1200 MW 1114 MW (Planned for 2020) (Planned for 2024)Template: future / in 4 years
Akkuyu-4 VVER V-509 1200 MW 1114 MW (Planned for 2021) (Planned for 2025)Template: future / in 5 years

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Future Turkish nuclear power plant should be earthquake-proof - Russian designer. RIA Novosti , April 18, 2011, accessed August 11, 2011 .
  2. ↑ http://bizzenergytoday.com/atomstrom_nicht_vor_2022
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, Turkey. power-technology.com, accessed 10 August 2011 ( English ).
  4. ↑ a b c Russian plant for Turkey's Akkuyu. (No longer available online.) World Nuclear News, May 13, 2010, archived from the original on March 18, 2012 ; accessed 10 August 2011 ( English ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.world-nuclear-news.org
  5. ↑ bizzenergytoday: Nuclear power not before 2022 , accessed on March 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Turkey begins with the construction of the first nuclear power plant ( memento of the original from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.finanztreff.de
  7. ^ Protest marks ground breaking ceremony for Turkey's first nuclear power plant
  8. ↑ This is Putin's list of punishments for Turkey , Die Welt from December 1, 2015
  9. ↑ Diplomatic tensions: Russia stops construction of Turkish nuclear power plants. December 9, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Construction of Turkey's first nuclear plant continues as planned. Daily Sabah, December 9, 2015, accessed December 22, 2015 . (English)
  11. ↑ Russian contractor denies halt to Turkish nuclear power plant project. RT TV-Novosti, December 9, 2015, accessed December 22, 2015 . (English)
  12. ↑ Putin in Ankara: Starting signal for the first Turkish nuclear power plant orf.at, April 3, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018.
  13. ↑ see also North Anatolian Fault
  14. ↑ Nuclear disaster in Japan: Turkey and Tepco "Hopelessly ignorant". sueddeutsche.de , March 17, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2011 .
  15. ↑ Reactor Information System  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the IAEA : "Turkey: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / pris.iaea.org  
  16. ^ A b c Nuclear Power in Turkey. World Nuclear Association (WNA), April 2018, accessed April 22, 2018 .