Turkey plans to build 3 nuclear plants

Turkey has limited energy resources, relying on natural gas supplies from Iran and Russia, The Associated Press reports.

"As a country whose energy consumption is increasing rapidly, we want to benefit from nuclear energy as soon as possible," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an energy conference in Istanbul. "We foresee the building of three nuclear power plants by 2015."

Turkey has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and strict agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mohamed El-Baradei, head of the IAEA, will visit Ankara July 6-9.

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