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Greenpeace, the international environmental protection organisation,
yesterday condemned a plan by Turkey to build a nuclear power plant
located between Cyprus and Rhodes.
Greenpeace released the statement in Athens to mark the twelfth
anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in the former Soviet
Union. The first nuclear reactor at the Turkish plant has a scheduled
start-up date in June 2006, and the second re actor a year later,
Greenpeace said. An international tender called in 1997 to find a
contractor for the new plant is expected to produce a winner in June
this year.
Turkey plans to install ten nuclear reactors by 2020, totalling 10,000
megawatts, the statement said.
Greenpeace also held an exhibition on Turkey's nuclear programme
yesterday, and the threat it poses to Greece, Cyprus and the whole
Mediterranean region.
Greenpeace's Athens director, Stelios Psomas, has been waging a campaign against Turkish nuclear energy for many years.
The group has called on Turkey to call off the tender, saying the country has other ways of obtaining energy. Mr. Psomas also charged the European Union and other countries with hypocrisy in connection with subsidies for the Bulgarian nuclear plant.
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