The Sinop Nuclear Power Plant is a proposed nuclear plant in Turkey located at Sinop on the Black Sea. If constructed, it will be the country's second nuclear power plant after Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. In late 2025, a framework agreement with South Korean company KEPCO was signed.[1]
History
The deal for the project on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis was signed between Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in May 2013. The project would have been carried out by Atmea, a joint venture consortium of Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and French Areva. Turkey, being geographically on a highly active earthquake-prone zone, relies on top-level safety know-how and experience of Japanese experts against earthquakes.[2]
MHI and Itochu planned to build the power plant, which would have a capacity of around 4,480 MWe.[3][4] Four generation III pressurized water reactors (PWR) of type ATMEA1 developed by Atmea would have been installed in the nuclear plant.[2]
See also
- List of commercial nuclear reactors
References
- https://www.donanimhaber.com/turkiye-ile-guney-kore-arasinda-nukleer-anlasmasi-imzalandi--198959^
- Turkey, Japan sign $22 bln deal for Sinop nuclear plant Hurriyet Daily News, Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık A.Ş., hurriyetdailynews.com, May 3, 2013, retrieved May 4, 2013^
- Nuclear Power Plant Planned Projects In Our Country Republic of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources., enerji.gov.tr^