ANKARA – Turkey is in preliminary talks with France for the construction of a nuclear power plant but Japan has the priority, Anatolia news agency quoted Turkey’s energy minister as saying on Friday.
France has expressed interest in building the plant and French energy companies Areva, EDF and GDF Suez have submitted certain proposals, Taner Yildiz said, without elaborating.
“We are evaluating this on the condition that talks with Japan have the priority,” he said, according to Anatolia.
Last month, Turkey and Japan signed a memorandum on civil nuclear cooperation, a step towards a possible $20-billion (
