Turkish Atomic Energy Authority

The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) granted the country's first nuclear power plant Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant's (NPP) project company Akkuyu Nuclear, a "limited works permit" for the construction of the plant's second unit, Rosatom announced on Dec. 14.

A village in the Aegean province of Aydın has been struggling with a latent threat of cancer since 1958 due to a nearby uranium mine, locals have said, noting their increasing frustration at the lack of official action.

The Türközü border gate at the Turkish-Georgian border was closed for nearly three hours after a radiation alarm in the region. 

Machines at the Georgian customs gate detected radiation and it was later understood that it was coming from the Turkish side, prompting the Georgian authorities to warn officials in the eastern province of Ardahan, Doğan News Agency reported on May 9. 

The Turkish Health Ministry and the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) have begun to install "radon sensors" in Turkish homes to determine the in-house measured values of radon gas, which makes up the majority of the radiation that stems from natural sources. 

The discovery of a radioactive substance stirred panic in the northwestern province of Sakarya on Oct. 20, as a child was hospitalized due to purple-colored spots that appeared on his body. 

The 16-year-old child, identified only as Eyüp B., was hospitalized after playing with a metal object he found in a construction site in the Arifiye district.

Turkey's Istanbul Bilgi University has begun collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, to become part of its Atlas experiment, which aims to observe dimensions and particles that could make up "dark matter" - a mysterious substance that is believed by researchers to make up most of the universe. 

Turkey's Energy Minister has refuted recent reports about uncertainties in Turkey's planned first nuclear power plant project in the southern district of Akkuyu amid rising rows between Turkey and Russia over Syria, saying that there is no problem with the project. 

Uncertainties are rising over controversial nuclear power plant project in Turkey?s Akkuyu, for which Russia has spent $3 billion so far, amid rows between Turkey and Russia over Syria. While the Russian side says the project?s financing is secured until 2017 and has maintained activities on the site a lack of required construction licenses, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s recent comme

Two smugglers of Georgian origin have been arrested at Turkey's northeastern border for attempting to smuggle caesium and a mercury-like substance, with a combined estimated market value of $2.5 million. 

Surprise! He would not have missed this opportunity but for whatever reason, he did not attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant on April 14. He would have delivered a long speech and we would have learned from him the virtues of nuclear power plants, the ones the world has given up? 

Now here are some of the merits of this power plant: