Turkey's First Nuclear Plant Gets Preliminary Licence

Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant was granted a preliminary licence for the next three years to acquire necessary permission to start investments, energy market watchdog EPDK said in a statement.

EPDK said the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant Company would be granted a full licence to produce energy if it fulfilled the requirements laid out by the preliminary licence.

Russia's Rosatom is expected to start building Turkey's first nuclear power plant at the end of 2016.

(Reporting by Orhan Coskun)