Un Japanese-French consortium won a $22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plants on the Turkish Black Sea coast. The consortium includes the energy supplier Itochu (Mitsubishi), the French company GDF Suez and a third Turkish partner yet to be identified. The French Areva will supply the reactor, in collaboration with Mitsubishi. This is the first deal Japan has signed for a foreign project since the Fukushima disaster. In an interview with the financial newspaper Nikkei, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he has faith in the Japanese nuclear industry which, according to the premier, has certainly learned from its mistakes over the past two years. “Turkey” added Erdogan “wants to have as many reactors as possible operational by 2023”.
The plant of Sinop it will include four reactors for a combined output of 4,800 megawatts, according to official Turkish sources. Turkey, which imports gas and oil from Russia and Iran, wants to build three nuclear plants to reduce dependence on foreign supplies.
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