Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that nuclear energy is safe provided power stations are built in the right place and are designed and managed properly.
Medvedev was speaking at a briefing with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan about Russian plans to build Turkey’s first nuclear power station.
"Everyone is asking a simple question: can atomic energy be safe? The answer is clear: it can be and is safe, but for this it is necessary to make the right decisions about the location of the plant, about the design and the operator," Medvedev said.
Erdogan has said Turkey’s plans to build two nuclear power plants with Japanese and Russian help were unchanged. The proposed site for the $20 billion plant to be built by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is near the coastal city of Mersin, some 25 km (15 miles) from an active fault line.
