Turkey's nuclear dawn approaches
David O'Byrne in Istanbul
April 30, 2013
It's a well-accepted maxim among Turks, that in Turkey things take longer than they do elsewhere.
As long ago as the 1960s when Europe was investing heavily in nuclear power plant to meet fast growing demand, Turkey's top technical universities began offering courses in nuclear engineering aimed at training the engineers who would develop the country's own planned nuclear power sector. Some 45 years on and those graduates may finally have the chance to put their learning into practice as plans for a new 4.8-gigawatt (GW), Russian-designed plant in Akkuyu finally appears set to make it off the drawing board following a $20bn agreement between the Russian and Turkish governments signed in 2010.
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