Akkuyu NPP. Unit 1 of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is over 90% complete. This was announced by Rosatom’s chief Alexey Likhachev during his visit to the site. “All the nuclear island equipment has been assembled. Work is underway in the turbine hall to install a stator, a centerpiece of the power generating system and the heaviest part of the nuclear plant equipment. The reactor can be compared to the heart that pumps blood through the plant’s body. The blood feeds the muscles, a turbine and a generator. These muscles will produce up to 10% of total electricity in such a big country as Turkey,” Rosatom Director General said. Right before his visit to the site, the workers completed a sophisticated task of pre-installing the stator of the turbine generator. Meanwhile, the first next-generation cask, which is used for the transportation and storage of nuclear fuel after it is extracted from the spent fuel pool, was shipped from Russia to Turkey.