New genereation of nuclear power plants and Turkish nuclear facilities in AKKUYU NPP

Abstract

Safety has been very important issue during build of Nuclear Power Plants since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster at March 2011. So, it is criticised that what lessons the countries having NPP facilities or building new NPP should learn from the continuing disaster surrounding the crippled Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. Experts, diplomats and activists have been coming together to argue their case for an end to the controversial energy source, or improved safety measures at the very least, and to express their concerns about potential causes for a similar meltdown stateside in many panels all over the World. It is one of the important issue also in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (Akkuyu NPP) will be built in Turkey, at Mersin Province on the Mediterranean coast. An agreement on this was signed between the governments of Russia and Turkey in Ankara on May 12, 2010. The NPP will have four power units of 1200 MW each. After construction, Akkuyu NPP is expected to produce about 35 billion kilowatt-hours per year. Akkuyu NPP is a serial project of the NPP-2006 nuclear power plant based on Novovoronezh NPP-2 (Russia, Voronezh Oblast). The life cycle of Akkuyu NPP is 60 years. On this site, http://www.akkunpp.com/index.php?lang=en you will find complete information about implementation of the Akkuyu NPP project in the Republic of Turkey.