The ceremony was also attended by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Fatih Donmez.
The construction of the station is carried out by the state corporation Rosatom on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement signed in 2010. In total, it is planned to put into operation four power units with a total capacity of 4,800 megawatts.
Vladimir Putin: Dear Mr President! Dear Mr. Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Organization! Dear friends!
I would like to cordially greet you, all the participants in today’s ceremony of delivering nuclear fuel to the Akkuyu NPP site, congratulate you on a new significant stage in the implementation of one of the largest joint projects in the history of Russian-Turkish relations - the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant.
I emphasize: this is a flagship project. It brings both mutual economic benefits and, of course, helps to strengthen the multifaceted partnership between our two states, which is based on the principles of good neighborliness, mutual respect and consideration of each other's interests.
This is exactly what we discussed with President Erdogan during our detailed telephone conversation that has just ended. Naturally, in addition to cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy, we have just discussed other topical issues in the development of the entire range of Russian-Turkish relations. And in this regard, a number of fundamentally important joint agreements have been reached.