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Detailed explanation-1: -History. In May 2010, Russia and Turkey signed an agreement that a subsidiary of Rosatom - Akkuyu NGS Elektrik Uretim Corp. (APC: Akkuyu Project Company) - would build, own, and operate a power plant at Akkuyu comprising four 1,200 MW VVER units. The agreement was ratified by the Turkish Parliament in July 2010.

Detailed explanation-2: -On June 27, 1954, the world’s first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, commenced operations in Obninsk, in the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sinop Nuclear Power Plant (Turkish: Sinop Nükleer Enerji Santrali) is a proposed nuclear plant in Turkey located at Sinop on the Black Sea. Negotiations with Rosatom started in 2022. If constructed, it will be the country’s second nuclear power plant after the projected Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response to the oil crisis in 1973, the Philippines decided to build the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) sits on a 389-hectare protected land at Napot Point, a peninsula in the west coast of Morong, Bataan, at the Luzon island.

Detailed explanation-5: -The U.A.E., a tiny nation that has become a regional heavyweight and international business center, said it built the plant to decrease its reliance on the oil that has powered and enriched the country and its Gulf neighbors for decades.