Turkey aims to reach 20 GW of electricity generation capacity from nuclear power by 2050, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday, in remarks at the 67th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noting that by 2035 Turkey will have 7.2 GW of electricity generation from atomic energy.
Bayraktar stressed that for Turkey, nuclear power is the first option to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels in electricity generation and minimise its carbon footprint, with the aim of curbing climate change; to this end, it will rely not only on large conventional nuclear power plants, but also on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The minister stressed, however, that the Eurasian country also aims to increase its generating capacity from renewable energy.
Russia is building Turkey’s 1st nuclear power plant in Mersin, in the south of the country; plans are already underway to build a 2nd nuclear power plant in Sinop (on the Black Sea coast), and negotiations have begun with China to build Turkey’s 3rd nuclear power plant, to be located near the border with Greece and Bulgaria.
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