{"id":6124,"date":"2010-05-12T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2010-05-12T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:53:16","slug":"russia-turkey-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/russia-turkey-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Turkey sign $20 billion nuclear power plant deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rus-lider-medmedev-ankara-nationalturk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6126\" title=\"Russia, Turkey sign $20 billion nuclear power plant deal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rus-lider-medmedev-ankara-nationalturk-214x220.jpg\" alt=\"Russia, Turkey sign $20 billion nuclear power plant deal\" width=\"214\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rus-lider-medmedev-ankara-nationalturk-214x220.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rus-lider-medmedev-ankara-nationalturk.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Russia signed an agreement on building a power plant with four nuclear reactors on Turkey\u2019s southern coast at a cost of about $20 billion after more than a year of negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State-controlled Russian builder Atomstroiexport will lead construction of the plant on Turkey&#8217;s southern coast, Russian nuclear agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an extremely important contract for us,&#8221; the Rosatom chief told reporters of the deal, signed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev&#8217;s visit to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has built nuclear power plants in nations from Iran to China and is aggressively seeking deals to build new stations.<\/p>\n<p>Kiriyenko said that for the first time, Russia would not just build the plant but would have a controlling stake in a company to be created to own it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is much more interesting for us to be a co-investor in such projects,&#8221; he said, adding that a long-term contract would be reached to supply power to a Turkish utility.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, Turkey sign $20 billion nuclear power plant deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,194,188],"tags":[8091,7412,688,599,8092,8090,77182],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","tag-atomstroiexpor","tag-dmitry-medvedev","tag-eastern-russia","tag-russia","tag-russia-nuclear-reactors","tag-russia-turkey","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}