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GE delivers equipment for Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant

GE Steam Power has delivered the first Arabelle steam turbine module for the Akkuyu nuclear power project in the Mersin Province in southern Turkey. The US company will supply all the major equipment for the nuclear power plant’s four turbine islands including the Arabelle steam turbine, the Gigatop 4 poles generators and the vacuum pumps in the turbine hall.

The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant will consist of four 1,200 MW VVER reactors for a total capacity of 4,800 MW. The first unit is expected to be commissioned in 2023, and the second and third units received a construction license in September 2019 and in November 2020, respectively. The four units should meet 6% to 7% of Turkey’s electricity demand once they are fully operational. The plant is being built at a cost of US$20bn under a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) agreement with the Russian nuclear group Rosatom in charge of the construction. In August 2019, Akkuyu Nuclear, Rosatom’s Turkish subsidiary, obtained a 7-year loan worth US$400m from the Russian bank Sberbank.

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