Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom is expecting to receive a construction licence for Unit 4 of the Akkuyu nuclear power station by the end of summer 2021, company head Alexey Likhachev said in an interview with the Russia 24 television channel.
He told the state channel that this would allow Rosatom to proceed with first concrete, making the Akkuyu project “the world’s largest nuclear construction site”, where four units are being built simultaneously.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic has not affected the company’s schedules for Akkuyu, the first commercial nuclear project in Turkey.
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