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Commissioning work at Türkiye’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is expected to begin within months as efforts continue to accelerate the project, Rosatom Director General Aleksey Likhachev said.
Likhachev made the remarks after meeting Türkiye’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, according to a statement from the Russian state nuclear energy company.
Construction and commissioning preparations at Akkuyu are continuing successfully, Likhachev said.
“Only a few months remain before commissioning work begins,” he said. “Together with representatives of the customer, we are making every effort to accelerate all production processes.”
Likhachev said the project had faced pressure because of the position taken by foreign financial institutions, obstacles created by European suppliers and direct interventions by some Western public institutions.
He said those factors had affected both the project’s costs and timetable.
Likhachev stressed the importance of offsetting project risks and improving economic efficiency.
He also said Türkiye had introduced several legal measures to support the nuclear energy sector, including the Akkuyu project.
Rosatom has focused its efforts on making 2026 the launch year for Akkuyu’s first power unit, Akkuyu Nuclear JSC board Chairperson Anton Dedusenko previously said.
Speaking at the NPPES industry forum in Istanbul, Dedusenko announced that construction work on the first unit had been completed.
“We have already loaded fuel assembly simulators into the reactor and completed reactor assembly,” he said.
Dedusenko added that cold hydraulic testing of the reactor was underway—a mandatory commissioning procedure used to confirm the unit’s readiness for subsequent operations.
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