Japanese-French Consortium Wins Turkish Nuclear Deal
A Japanese-French consortium has won a $22 billion dollar contract to build a nuclear power plant on Turkey's Black Sea coast, a senior energy ministry official said on Thursday.
"An inter-governmental agreement is expected to be signed between the prime ministers of both countries on Friday," the official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
The Sinop plant will comprise four reactors with combined output of 4,800 megawatts, he added.
Japanese, Chinese, South Korean and Canadian nuclear power groups had competed for the project.
The deal marks Japan's first successful public-private bid for an overseas nuclear plant project since the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
Source: Agence France Presse
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