Akkuyu NPP’s Unit 1 launch set for fall 2026: Rosatom CEO
Nuclear fuel loading into the reactor of Unit 1 at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, along with its subsequent launch, is scheduled for this fall, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev told Sputnik.
Rosatom plans to begin the “hot test” in July — the main stage of commissioning work before the startup of Akkuyu’s unit 1, Likhachev noted.
If these tests successfully confirm the reliability of the reactor’s equipment and systems under design operating conditions, “we will begin loading fuel and ‘lifting up’ the unit in the fall,” he added.
Rosatom is building Türkiye’s first nuclear power plant in the southern province of Mersin under a 2010 intergovernmental agreement between Türkiye and Russia.
