OREANDA-NEWS.  On the construction site of Akkuyu NPP in the Republic of Turkey the first contract was signed. 

The document was signed by the Branch of Atomstroyexport (ASE) in Turkey and the Turkish company OZDOGU Insaat ve Ticaret Ltd.Sti selected as the contractor through the bidding process.

For ASE the contract was signed by Branch Director Alexander Mironov and for the Turkish company in was signed by its Director General Murat Kavak.

The contract covers the excavation of a pit on Akkuyu NPP site, reprocessing of rock for the use in construction and site leveling. It is planned that about 4.5 million cubic meters of rock will be reprocessed in the course of the work.

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On the 12th of May, 2010 in Ankara, during the visit of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to Turkey, the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Turkey concerning the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant on the Akkuyu site in the Republic of Turkey was signed. According to the intergovernmental agreement, Atomstroyexport is the prime contractor for construction of the nuclear power plant. The project of Turkey’s first NPP includes four VVER reactors. Power capacity of each NPP unit will be 1200 MW. Akkuyu NPP construction is planned to be on BOO (Build-Own-Operate) terms. The construction of the four-reactor NPP in Turkey will allow producing about 35 trillion kWh of electricity per year. Since 2012 the project has been implemented by the United Company NIAEP-ASE.