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Speaking at the World Oil Congress in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of work on the third nuclear power plant. It had previously been announced that two power plants would be built. For the third power plant, Iğneada is named.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday ‘we have started work on the third nuclear power plant’ after the statement was turned to this point. It is not yet clear where the third plant will be built. The rhetoric is that it will be done to Iğneada. The other two power plants will be built in Sinop and Mersin.

WHAT IS A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT?

• A nuclear power plant is a nuclear reactor that generates electrical energy using radioactive substances as fuel. Fossil fuel power plants use fuels such as coal and oil, while nuclear power plants produce energy by breaking down uranium. The fact that these power plants use different substances from others reveals the need to take even more safety measures. Nuclear power plants are named differently according to the primary variations in the operating system. Boiling water, Pressurized Heavy Water and pressurized water reactor are called. In basic is a hazard to life for cancer and safety.
  

TURKEY'S FIRST POWER PLANT TO AKKUYU

• The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project, which started after a 2010 agreement between Russia and Turkey, is estimated to cost $ 22 billion. The plant, which is planned to have 4 reactors, one of which has a capacity of 1200 megawatts, is intended to meet 10 percent of Turkey's energy needs.

AKKUYU NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROJECT

• Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Council gave permission to the plan of the project at its meeting in October 2016. The project, by Russian state nuclear power company Rosatom, is expected to end in 2022.

• 49 percent of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant will be sold to Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon 49 percent of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant will be sold to Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon

TURKEY'S SECOND CENTRAL SINOP

The signatures for the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant were laid in 2013. The power plant is planned to be built on Sinop's Inceburun Peninsula. The cost of the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant, Turkey's second planned nuclear power plant after the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, is expected to be around $ 20 billion.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROTEST IN SINOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROTEST

• The Atmea-I type pressurized water reactor, developed by the joint venture of Japan's MHI and France's Areva, will be used and this technology will be tested in Sinop for the first time in the world if the Sinop investment takes place.

• The power plant is designed to have a total installed capacity of 4,480 MW with 4 reactor units of 1120 MW. The plant's first reactor is scheduled to be commissioned in 2023.

IT GARNERED A HUGE REACTION

• After signing the signatures for the nuclear power plant to be built in Sinop, the reactions came repeatedly. Citizens were concerned about the radioactive dangers of the nuclear power plant and did not want the plant to be installed in Sinop. In addition, it was said that the region where the power plant will be built is on fish migration routes, and this will negatively affect the people of the region, who mostly earn a living from fishing.

IĞNEADA FOR THE THIRD POWER PLANT IN TURKEY

• The minister of energy and Natural Resources at the time, said in 2015 that the Iğneada region of Kırklareli was planned for the third nuclear power plant in Turkey.

• Alaboyun, the question of who will make the third plant in, “currently the 3rd is also signed an agreement in the form of a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese and America's Westinghouse Company, they are doing a study, but of course this does not mean that it is not open to other firms. We're negotiating with bidders on this. The Japanese are interested again, we want the technology of this nuclear facility to be the same,” he said.

LONGOZ FORESTS IN DANGER

• Langoz forests, which are found in only 4 regions in Turkey, including Iğneada, are among the rare ecosystems. These forests in Iğneada were formed as a result of the Erikli, Mert and Saka lakes fed by streams flowing from the Yıldız Mountains to the Black Sea, the dune in front of them swells with excess water in spring and floods back and covers the flat land. It is important to preserve the habitats of these rare forests.

WHAT'S THE SITUATION IN THE WORLD?

• The post-tsunami explosions at Japan's Fukushima power plant have given impetus to the debate about the safety of nuclear power plants.

• The most important step on this issue came from Germany. German Chancellor Angela Markel announced that 7 plants installed before 1980 will be closed for 3 months. Germany's Economy Minister also announced that the closure of 7 of the country's 17 power plants would not affect the country's economy. The German government had previously said it was suspending its plan to keep existing nuclear plants in use for a longer period of time for three months.

RUSSIA CONTROLS ITS POWER PLANTS

• Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has also ordered control of the country's nuclear power plants. Russia's plans to build new nuclear power plants will also be reviewed.

SWITZERLAND SAYS STOP NUCLEAR

• The Swiss government has announced that it is suspending plans for a nuclear plant in the country, saying safety is a top priority. Switzerland has four nuclear power plants. There are a total of five active reactors at these plants. These plants meet 40 percent of the country's electricity needs. But some nuclear plants are about to complete their lives.

• The final decision put the approval process for three new plants on hold. The two former nuclear plants, which are due to close, are expected to be shut down within months.

EU TO TEST POWER PLANTS

• European Union officials also discussed the safety of nuclear power plants in Europe at an extraordinary meeting today. After the meeting, it was announced that the EU Commission was hotly approaching the proposal to pass a stress test of nuclear power plants, whose safety was again discussed after the earthquake in Japan

• This proposal needs to be evaluated and discussed, said Marlene Holzner, a spokeswoman for the EU Commission.

• Holzner noted that one of the items on the agenda of EU energy ministers, who will meet in Brussels today, will be the safety and stress test of nuclear power plants in Europe. Austria has called for it to carry out “endurance testing” on all nuclear reactors in Europe. The British government, like the French government, said it had “learned lessons from the Japanese experience.”

FRANCE ALSO DISPUTES

• One of the countries with the most intense nuclear debate is France, which has the most nuclear reactors in Europe. In France, which has 58 active nuclear reactors, the Green Party launched a campaign to give up nuclear energy in the wake of the Japan Earthquake. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-chair of the European Parliament's Greens group, the party's' shadow leader', called on French left-wing parties to advocate “holding a referendum to renounce nuclear” and to add this project to their electoral programmes. But the government was under pressure from its nuclear opponents because of this decision. Tens of thousands of people had protested against the government by the weekend, forming a 45-kilometer human chain.

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