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"The USA is showing serious interest in Turkey's goal of
increasing its nuclear energy capacity and building new power
plants," the official Yusuf Ceylan told Reuters at a conference
on nuclear power plants.
Asked about the projects under discussion, he said: "We can
consider the areas of existing power plants or new power
plants."
"We are negotiating with the USA for both large-scale power
plants and small modular reactors. This is a statement of
intent," he said.
Jeff Flake, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, told Reuters last
month that Ankara "talked to us and others about (building)
small modular reactors".
"We're working with them to try to lessen their dependency (on
Russia) in whatever ways we can," he added.
Ceylan said negotiations continued with South Korea and Russia
for a second nuclear power plant planned to be built in the
Black Sea region of Sinop, and with China's SPIC for a third
nuclear power plant in northwest Turkey's Thrace region.
The construction of Turkey's first 4,800 MW nuclear power plant
by Russia's Rosatom is continuing at Akkuyu in Turkey's
Mediterranean region.
Turkey plans to build three four-reactor nuclear plants and
complement them with SMRs for a total of 20,000 MW generation
capacity to diversify its electricity production mix.
(Reporting by Can Sezer, additional reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu
in Ankara; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Jonathan Spicer
and Barbara Lewis)
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