Turkey to build nuclear reactor with China, US company, what does the contract say about the Uranium supply?

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Turkey to build nuclear reactor with China, US company, what does the contract say about the Uranium supply? (AA).

Turkish and Chinese state-owned companies, and a private U.S.-based company have signed an agreement to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey.

Turkey’s state owned electricity generation corporation, Elektrik Uretim A.S., U.S.-based Westinghouse electric company and China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation announced Monday a multi-party agreement to enter exclusive negotiations to develop and construct a nuclear power plant in Turkey.

According to Westinghouse’s statement on its website, a four-unit nuclear reactor will be built in Turkey as part of the agreement.

The project will cover all life-cycle activities, including operations, nuclear fuel, maintenance, engineering, plant services and decommissioning of Turkey’s third nuclear project.

Turkey has plans to construct three nuclear plants.

The first nuclear plant will be in Akkuyu, southern Turkey, which will be financed by Russia.

The second nuclear project will be constructed by a French-Japanese consortium with a share of Turkey’s Elektrik Uretim A.S. corporation. Read the full story here.

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When companies build a light-water reactor, they usually agree to the Government, the project to operate for 60 years, to provide the necessary for the operation of uranium available and then take back the spent fuel. Exactly offered in the case of Turkey in both Rosatom and the Japanese-French consortium. So far nothing special so.

Not fixed supply of uranium contract.

But Turkey has waived in both cases it to fix the supply of uranium and the withdrawal of spent fuel contract. She insisted the contrary, to regulate this separately later.  Ankara has not explained  this unusual maneuver in the negotiations. But the intention behind it is easy to see:

The Turkish leadership wants to keep these parts of the nuclear program in their own hands - and they are crucial to any State that wants to develop nuclear weapons.

First, there are the fuel rods: Not only Gorleben in Lower Saxony, but all over the world, the disposal of nuclear waste is discussed as a problem. Turkey on the other hand do not want to give up their spent fuel obviously. The only logical explanation for this: you want to make preparations for the construction of a plutonium bomb.

According to the Federal Intelligence Service, who were known to a limited German public by a relevant information service, the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has already arranged in 2010, secretly prepare for the construction of facilities for the enrichment. According to other intelligence findings that Turkey already has a significant number of centrifuges. Where they come from, can be supposed, after all: Pakistan.

Another important indication in the chain is the Turkish missile program. Since the mid-80s developed Turkey short-range missiles with a maximum range of 150 kilometers. This was to obviously not be satisfied. Public sensation was caused mainly prompted Erdogan in December 2011 to the defense industry of his country, to develop long-range missiles. Two months later, Turkey began apparently with the development of a medium-range missile. A type of missile with a range of 1,500 kilometers, after all, already tested the Turks 2012 A medium-range missile with 2,500 km range should be ready in 2015.

Given the already established nuclear power, Israel and the nascent nuclear-armed Iran, the Turkish prime minister has no choice but to his country to arm nuclear, if he wants to carry out his vision of a great power Turkey. Because otherwise, Turkey remains his understanding of secondary importance - and therefore can not and will Erdogan definitely not satisfied. Hmmm....Only prob Erdogan is way more dangerous then Ahmadinejad ever was. Read the full story here.