Russia is interested in a new tender to build and operate Turkey's first nuclear power station, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Tuesday, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reports.
Russia is interested in a new tender to build and operate Turkey's first nuclear power station, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Tuesday, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reports.

Turkish state-run power provider TETAS on Nov. 20 canceled a tender to build and operate the country's first nuclear power station. TETAS had 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 .

Yildiz previously said his country's determination to build a nuclear power plant continues.

"Cancellation of a tender does not mean cancellation of the whole process," he said.

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