Current State of Nuclear Energy Programs in the Middle East
17.01.2016
Three Middle Eastern nuclear power projects have entered the active phase. The region’s first NPP in Bushehr was connected to the energy grid and began commercial operation in September 2011. A contract to build another two reactors in Bushehr was signed in 2014. The four reactors of the Barakah NPP in the UAE were laid down in 2012–2015; the No 1 reactor will begin to supply electricity to the grid in 2017. It is expected that construction at the Akkuyu NPP site in Turkey will commence in 2016, once all the necessary permits and licenses have been obtained.
