MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is interested in building a nuclear power plants in Turkey, the state-run company that builds the facilities overseas said Monday.
Atomstroiexport said the decision had been made at a Moscow meeting of a Russian-Turkish working group on energy held on May 11-12.
Turkey announced in April that it would start building three nuclear power plants on its Black Sea coast in 2007 in a bid to diversify its energy sources. It had announced auctions for the construction of an NPP several times in the past but the last project was abandoned in 2000 due to lack of financing.
The Turkish authorities stepped up work on the NPP program after a sharp fall in imports of natural gas from neighboring Iran was registered in January.
Atomstroiexport is Russia's leading company implementing intergovernmental agreements on building nuclear facilities overseas. It is the world's only company building five power units for nuclear power plants in China, India and Iran.
