Your writer had sincere feeling that Turkey was about to place the Nuclear Power Plant order to Russian group, because Russian prime Minister Vladimir Putin was coming to Turkey on 6th August 2009.
Without a guaranteed order, he would never come to Turkey. Prior to that meeting there was high expectation that Turkish and Russian sides will sign the NPP contract.
Turkey had completed the Russian proposal for constructing country’s first-ever nuclear power plant.
All our past agreements were negotiated behind closed doors, all under secret terms for the best public interests, not released to scrutiny and evaluation of the general public.
Please be sure that if there is any secret agreement in any of these public tenders past and present, then there is corruption practice for sure.
We need to know details of Russian gas purchase.
We need to know details of Iranian gas purchase.
Similarly we need to know details of the New Nuclear tender.
We need to know how much we shall be paying to Russian Nuclear Power Plant owner for next 15 years
We need to know how the contractor consortium will be handling the nuclear waste for long term.
We do not want any temporary nuclear waste disposal on AkKuyu Mersin sea shores.
They name the nuclear waste disposal system as "Temporary Storage Area" and they keep there "Permanent" for say 1000 years as in the case of Russian NPPs in Bulgaria.
Contractor should re-transport their nuclear waste back to their own waste disposal storage areas in Siberia.
Contractor should supply the best available instrumentation and control systems, and best pumps from reputable international markets.
It is not secret that Russian commercial instrumentation and controls, and commercial pumps are miserable in operation. We have miserable SeydiSehir, Orhaneli, Iskenderun examples, all contracted via inter-governmental agreements. They are worn out fast; all are in disaster status at this time needing rehabilitation urgently.
We, independent energy analysts are here for this purpose.
By employing our past professional experiences, we evaluate the case in detail; we interpret the small details where newcomer public employees cannot notice upfront.
We make the necessary public policies much earlier than the public administrators, lead them how to negotiate in case of closed doors when/ where necessary for the best interest of our country.
Sometimes we exaggerate, and there you should trust to your own logic.
Putin and Berlusconi came to Ankara yesterday, had meetings with our top administrators, signed already agreed documents in energy projects, they gave poses with broad smiles and hard handshakes and left all in one day.
This is not only chess game or poker. This is full implementation of “Game Theory” in international politics.
All we need is full transparency in all public transactions; hence we all need independent energy analyst in evaluation and best available application of Game Theory for best interest of our country and the nation.
Your comments are always welcome
--
Haluk Direskeneli, Ankara based Energy Analyst
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Journal of Turkish Weekly (JTW)
USAK House,
Ayten Sok. No:21
Mebusevleri, Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey
2012 National Coal Policy for Turkey
