US proposal to build a nuclear power plant would be considered: Turkish Energy minister<\/p>\n
AFP<\/p>\n
Turkey’s energy minister said Monday Ankara would consider a proposal from the United States to build a nuclear power plant in the country’s north.<\/p>\n
“If a proposal comes from the United States, we could evaluate it but so far, no concrete proposal has been made to us,” Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters.<\/p>\n
Turkey reached an agreement with Russia in May 2010 to build Turkey’s first nuclear plant in Akkuyu in Mersin province, in the south.<\/p>\n
In December, Turkey and Japan also signed a memorandum on civil nuclear cooperation, a step towards a possible $20-billion deal for Japanese companies to build a nuclear plant at Sinop, on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n
Yildiz said Turkey wanted to hear the same political will from Japan after the latter’s prime minister changed.<\/p>\n
“I can say we are negotiating with different countries and different companies in order to generate alternative solutions in case Japan is unable to carry on with us,” Yildiz said.<\/p>\n
The minister declined to name which countries or firms Turkey was negotiating with but said everything would be clarified by the end of October.<\/p>\n
He repeated the Turkish government’s insistence to press ahead with plans to build its first nuclear power plant amid concerns raised by Japan’s nuclear disaster.<\/p>\n
“There is a logic to our determination,” said Yildiz. “We want to minimise our dependence on energy imports.”<\/p>\n
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