The Akkuyu NPP and Russian-Turkish Nuclear Cooperation: - Asymmetries and risks

4 The Akkuyu NPP and Russian-Turkish Nuclear Cooperation: Asymmetries and risks hydroelectric power plants.3 The announcement of the discovery of natural gas reserves within the Turkish EEZ in the Black Sea raised some hopes, but did not change the fundamentals, as the development and monetization of the natural gas fields could take many years in an energy market environment ever less attracted b. [...] 5 The Akkuyu NPP and Russian-Turkish Nuclear Cooperation: Asymmetries and risks corporation has undertaken to finance the construction of the power reactors, to ensure the production of electricity, to guarantee the supply of nuclear fuel for the plant's entire lifespan, and to return the spent fuel to Russia. [...] The temperature of the seawater in the Eastern Mediterranean is higher than that of other bodies of water, such as the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, or the Don River, which cools the nuclear power plant that serves as a point of reference for Akkuyu – the Novovoronezh NPP. [...] As nuclear military technology proliferated in the Indian subcontinent and concerns grew about the Iranian nuclear development program and the possibility of proliferation in the Middle East, Turkey was among the countries that were rumored to have an interest in acquiring nuclear military capabilities, especially if the international community failed to prevent the acquisition of The Akkuyu NPP’s. [...] The construction of the Akkuyu NPP has not only 2023 could mark raised important environmental and institutional questions, along with concerns over the advent of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, it has also served to showcase the asymmetrical nuclear power in relationship between Russia and Turkey – and the fact that this asymmetry is impervious Turkey and a deepening of even to the deca.