Russia Weighs Stake Sale in $25 Billion Turkish Nuclear Plant

The under-construction Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey.

Photographer: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom Corp. is in talks to sell a 49% stake in the $25 billion power plant it’s building in Turkey.

Discussions are currently underway with Turkish and foreign investors, Anton Dedusenko, chairman of the board at the Rosatom subsidiary responsible for the Akkuyu plant, told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the Nuclear Power Plants Expo & Summit in Istanbul.