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Turkish court blocks nuclear plant project: union
Ankara (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 A Turkish court has blocked a 2008 tender won by a Russian company to build the country's first nuclear power plant, a civil society group that challenged the tender in court said on Tuesday. A consortium led by Atomstroyexport, Russia's state nuclear giant, was the only bidder in the tender to build and operate the plant but the government was yet to decide whether to award the project. "The Council of State has suspended three articles in the regulation governing the tender process," the Union of Turkish Engineers' and Architects' Chambers (TMMOB) said in a statement. "With this decision, the nuclear power plant tender has legally ended. It has been rendered invalid," it added. There was no immediate response from the government to the court decision. The tender process has been under fire since it emerged in September last year that only one consortium had bid for the project and offered an above-market price. The consortium, which also includes Russia's Inter Rao and Turkey's park Teknik, later revised down its proposed price for supplying electricity, but Ankara said the new offer was also high. The project envisages the construction of four nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 4,800-megawatts at Akkuyu, in the Mediterranean province of Mersin. The plan is fiercely opposed by environmentalists who argue that Akkuyu is close to a seismic faultline, pointing at a powerful earthquake that killed more than 140 people in the neighbouring province of Adana in 1998.
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