Comments on: Plans For Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant Revealed https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/07/plans-for-turkeys-first-nuclear-power-plant-revealed/ Sustainable news for the Middle East Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Devrim Tarihi https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/07/plans-for-turkeys-first-nuclear-power-plant-revealed/#comment-41401 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:02:04 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=79457#comment-41401 You have written “Turkey hoping to have three nuclear plants in a decade”. But this needs correction. Only goverment wants nuclear plants, people not. After Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, the deaths caused by cancer skyrocketed. I live in Giresun (a small Black Sea region city)and lost my 3 family member from cancer. Akkuyu is far away from Giresun but nobody in Giresun support Akkuyu nuclear plant.

]]> By: Nuclear engineer https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/07/plans-for-turkeys-first-nuclear-power-plant-revealed/#comment-41177 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:11:26 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=79457#comment-41177 This article suggests that “the [nuclear] waste will be dumped into the Mediterranean.”

This is absurd. The Russians have a complete cradle-to-grave nuclear fuel approach that will include transport of the spent nuclear fuel back to Russia, where it will be stores and eventually reprocessed (to recovery the 95% of useable nuclear fuel remaining after use).

International treaties DO NOT allow dumping of nuclear waste or spent nuclear fuel into the sea and this is not done today by anyone. Saying that the Akkuyu plant would do so shows that the writer is either ignorant or is blatantly trying to stir up public fear.

Fact check, please!

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