ANKARA, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Turkish
government is likely to cancel a tender for the construction of
the country's first nuclear power plant by rejecting a bid from
a Russian reactor builder, a Turkish paper said on Wednesday.
Atomstroyexport, acting through a consortium with Russian
power producer Inter RAO UES and Turkey's Park Teknik, is
competing in a tender to build four nuclear reactors with a
capacity of 1,200 MW each in Turkey.
According to the Milliyet newspaper, the Turkish side is
dissatisfied with the high price of electricity generation
offered by Atomstroyexport.
Last Monday, the Turkish energy company Tetas opened an
envelope containing Atomstroyexport's bid, which offered a rate
of 21.16 U.S. cents per kW/hr of electricity generation. It was
also announced at the time that Atomstroyexport had submitted
an adjusted bid, taking into account the current global
financial crisis. However, the bid was returned to the Russian
company, the paper said.
The tender will now almost certainly be scrapped. In this
case, new tenders for the construction of the nuclear power
plant will be held, the paper said.
According to the paper, initially about 10 international
companies had displayed an interest in the tender, which had
earlier been cancelled four times. But the terms of the tender
eliminated all the bidders, except for the Russian-Turkish
consortium, the paper said.
The Turkish authorities are planning to build the
country's first nuclear power plant at Akkuyu, on the coast of
the Mediterranean Sea. By 2016, three nuclear power plants with
total capacity of 4,500 MW and worth a total of $7-8 billion
are expected to appear in Turkey. The nuclear power plants are
expected to use heavy-water reactors.
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