The opening of Turkiye’s first nuclear plant has been delayed after Germany’s Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE withheld key parts, prompting Russia’s Rosatom, the builder and owner, to buy them in China, the Turkish energy minister said today according to Reuters. Siemens’s non-delivery will delay launching the Akkuya power plant’s first reactor by a few months, Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told state-run Anadolu. The decision likely stems from Western sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, he added. Though Turkiye had initially planned to start up Akkuyu’s first reactor in 2023, delays have pushed that back to next year, with the remaining reactors to come online by the end of 2028. A Siemens Energy spokesperson confirmed that some parts were not delivered to Turkiye […]
