Turkish power provider TETAS said Friday it has canceled a tender to build and operate the country's first nuclear power station, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reports.
TETAS has been considering a report on the nuclear tender which was held Sept. 24, 2008.
A consortium comprising Russian companies Atomstroyexport and OAO Inter RAO EES (IRAO.RS) and Turkish company Park Teknik was the sole bidder in the tender to build and operate a 4,000-megawatt nuclear power station in Akkuyu, near the Turkish Mediterranean port of Mersin.
However, a Turkish court earlier this month suspended three articles in the nuclear plant regulation that set conditions to hold tenders for building nuclear power plants.