What do you think about Turkey building a nuclear plant in Akkuyu, in light of the recent earthquakes in the region? How should Cyprus deal with this?
What do you think about Turkey building a nuclear plant in Akkuyu, in light of the recent earthquakes in the region? How should Cyprus deal with this?
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Personally I welcome it.
It will hopefully help to create a whole new subject area for shitty conspiracy theories. I was getting tired of the covid, natural gas, NATO and Foullis ones.
This power plant is illegal, and will probably never be finished
If it does start to be operational, it won’t be accepted by the nuclear watchdog
The risk to neighboring countries is too high and will be immediately shut down
The entire eastern Mediterranean is at risk from this power plant
if the plant is build up to code then there is nothing to worry about. Cyprus should invest in nuclear as well as it is a solid backbone, useful if we want to transition to renewables/zero emissions
We should solve the damn Cyprus problem, yet another benefit for us
Cheap, green nuclear power that, when the plant in Turkey is switched on, and if the Cyprus problem is solved, will show the international community that our economy and energy sector is mature enough for us to also build one
Nuke is the way alongside with renewables. Fusion ftw!
What are we going to do!!! I’m so scared 😨
Nothing will be done as always
300 + days of sunshine…. we can use the sun, there is no need for nuclear energy in our Island.
Horrible idea
nothing really, it’s the best option for clean energy, and you can’t avoid earthquakes
If Ukraine power plant exploded in 1980s still gives us cancers u want our opinion?
What a joke
As a Turk, I literally do not support. THAT LOCATION IS RISKIER THEN A GODDAMN FAKE DOCTOR DOING AN OPERATION!
It wouldn’t. We’d be playing Fallout irl pretty quick – and our roaches are scary enough without the Rad (gamers will get it)
If I understand the map it’s in the safest part from earthquakes, so if they’re going to anywhere this is probably best. I’m not the biggest fan of sea side nuclear after fukushima tho
Shoot it
Lol the idea is a travesty… The current government can’t handle anything.
Hope it is cancelled.
What Cyprus should do? Buy cheap and ecological electricity from this plant!
I wouldn’t feel anything unless I knew how bad Turkey can manage such projects. If it’s not gonna be supervised by Turkey solely, then eh.
As a person who has worked in the nuclear industry before, I strongly oppose this the following reasons:
1. It is too close to an active fault line, and the license to build was obtained before they had knowledge of that (and possibly forged)
2. Nuclear waste is a problem, these projects are huge, and many things can go wrong. I can’t justify it given above, especially in an area where alternative and green solutions would be viable.