Turkey approved concessions to Russia on $20 bln nuclear power plant amid sanctions, Ukraine-Russia war

 

Installation of the main components in the reactor’s first unit was completed on March 1, 2022, according to Akkuyu Nuclear JSC, a company that was set up to implement the project and is fully owned by Russia.

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A week after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Turkey, the only NATO ally that declared its opposition to sanctions and kept its airspace open to Russian aircraft, granted more concessions to Moscow in a lucrative $20 billion contract for construction of the country’s first nuclear power plant.

On March 5 the Turkish Parliament approved a government-endorsed bill on a nuclear regulatory framework that authorized a number of concessions to Russia’s Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.

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