Turkey plans to issue the second nuclear tender to build and operate a nuclear power station in Turkey in three to four months, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Monday, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported.
Turkey held its first nuclear tender 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 last week suspended three articles in the nuclear plant regulation that set conditions to hold tenders for building nuclear power plants.
Yildiz previously said it was too early to say whether the tender to build the country's first nuclear power plant had been canceled after court's decision.
After Akkuyu, Ankara plans to build its second nuclear station in the Black Sea city of Sinop, in the north of the country.