{"id":46082,"date":"2011-10-28T22:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46082"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:36:08","slug":"turkey-plans-to-take-action-against-armenian-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/28\/turkey-plans-to-take-action-against-armenian-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey plans to take action against Armenian plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ali Kayalar<\/p>\n

\"Energy
Energy Minister Taner Y\u0131ld\u0131z says Turkey\u2019s debut nuclear plant will be the strongest building in the country. AA photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turkey\u2019s Energy Minister Taner Y\u0131ld\u0131z has said he ordered the country\u2019s nuclear authority to measure radioactivity in the east after the deadly earthquake in Van province for fear of leaks from a nuclear plant in Armenia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority to immediately conduct tests,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131z told a group of journalists in Ankara while speaking at a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n

Turkey is preparing to take legal action against all superannuated nuclear power plants across the world, including Metzamor in Armenia, the minister said.<\/p>\n

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will receive from Turkey complaints about dozens of nuclear plants across the world that have already exceed an age of 40, Y\u0131ld\u0131z said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome countries are announcing that they are putting an end to nuclear power and closing superannuated plants, but they are continuing to build new ones,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the minister declined to specify any country by name.<\/p>\n

Siemens, Germany\u2019s biggest nuclear energy company, was turning the page on nuclear energy, the group\u2019s chief executive told the Der Spiegel weekly in September.<\/p>\n

The government in Germany had earlier announced it will withdraw from nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that took more than 20,000 lives.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s to-be-built nuclear plant near the town of Akkuyu in the southern province of Akkuyu would be \u201cthe strongest building in the country,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131z said. As risk grows, security measures grow too, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will invest some $20 billion there. It will become an important part of the overall energy system and we will still bear risks. Sorry, but neither the state nor the private sector would take such a risk. One should be crazy, otherwise. We will not let it happen. No need to worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian state-owned nuclear power company ROSATOM is the contractor for the project.<\/p>\n

The country plans two more power plants, one in the northern province of Sinop and another in the Thracian region but talks with contractors for these projects were interrupted by the Fukushima accident.<\/p>\n

via Turkey plans to take action against Armenian plant – Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali Kayalar Turkey\u2019s Energy Minister Taner Y\u0131ld\u0131z has said he ordered the country\u2019s nuclear authority to measure radioactivity in the east after the deadly earthquake in Van province for fear of leaks from a nuclear plant in Armenia. \u201cI asked the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority to immediately conduct tests,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131z told a group of journalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1509],"class_list":["post-46082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","tag-taner-yildiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}