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    TURKEY TO ANNOUNCE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM SOON

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    14.03.2006 00:09 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey will soon announce its program on the
    peaceful use of nuclear energy, Turkish FM Abdullah Gul stated after
    a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director
    General Mohamed ElBaradei in Vienna. "Our nuclear program will be
    of peaceful nature exclusively. It will be based on transparency,
    openness to cooperation and interaction with the IAEA. Within its
    nuclear program Turkey plans to build three nuclear power plants (NPP)
    by 2016. The construction of these, according to experts' estimates,
    will cost $7-8 billion. The overall capacity of Turkish NPPs will
    make some 5 thousand MW," Gul remarked.

    Beginning the building of the first station is scheduled in 2007. The
    first Turkish NPP will be built in Sinop Black Sea province. It will
    be run by 2012.

    Russia, US, China, UK, France, Canada, South Korea and Japan show
    interest towards the construction project.

    Turkey has many times announced a tender for NPP building. In 2000
    the project of the first NPP was closed owing to lack of financing.

    Turkish authorities speeded up works relating to the building of the
    NPP after abrupt decrease of natural gas import from Iran in January
    2006. Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler said
    at the time it was necessary to reduce external dependency from energy
    supplies and its soonest diversification, reports CNN-Turk TV Company.
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