IANS | 30 Mar, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin may travel to Turkey on April 27 to attend
the inauguration ceremony of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.
Erdogan
told news channel ATV-A Haber in an interview that Putin may either
travel to Mersin in person or attend the ceremony via teleconference,
Xinhua news agency reported.
The project, located in the
southeastern Turkish province of Mersin, is Turkey's first nuclear
plant. It is expected to produce 35 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of
electricity annually and will meet about 10 per cent of domestic
electricity needs.
It is the world's first nuclear power plant
project implemented through a build-own-operate model. Under a contract,
Russia's Rosatom firm has agreed to provide the power plant's design,
construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning.
