Turkey and the US are set to conduct a technical study of US small modular reactor and fourth-generation nuclear technologies for potential deployment in Turkey, according to Alparslan Bayraktar, Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, in a post on X.
Turkey's state-owned Turkiye Nuclear Energy, or Tunas, and the US Trade and Development Agency reportedly agreed to the project on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to a Reuters report.
The study will assess small modular reactor designs from four US companies and five fourth-generation reactor technologies from technical, economic, legislative and licensing perspectives.
The USDTA will fund the study, which is expected to cost $2 million, and technical reports are expected to be made available in at least one year.