Turkish Builder Ditched by Rosatom Warns Nuclear Work Is Stalled
The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Mersin, Turkey.
Photographer: Serkan Avci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Construction of a $20 billion nuclear power project in Turkey has “stalled,” its main contractor IC Holding has warned, after Rosatom Corp. removed it in favor of a local company owned by Russian firms.
Time is being lost due to “the Russians’ current stance,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has intervened to solve the issue, IC board member Murat Cecen said in an interview with Haberturk. IC employs some 80% of the 25,000 workers at the site.