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Nine local companies place bid for $1 billion hydraulic systems of Akkuyu nuke plant

A total of nine Turkish companies have placed offers for the construction of $1 billion off-shore hydraulic structures of Turkey's first nuclear plant, which is being built in the southern coastal province of Mersin.

Russian company Rosatom is building the four-reactor Akkuyu plant, which will have a 4,800 megawatt (MW) power capacity, for an estimated total of $20 billion.