Pursuant to article 5 of the Law, National Radioactive Waste Account (“URAH”) and Decommissioning Accounts (“ICH”) shall be constituted by an arrangement formed by the Ministry and the Treasury to meet the costs of waste management by determining the temporary storage or final storage, the construction, licensing, operation and decommissioning of the storage facility, the transportation and processing of used fuel or the high-level radioactive waste which shall be stored in the temporary storage site or disposed of in the final storage site, the research which will ensure the management of radioactive waste, the development activities and the cost of dismantling operations of the nuclear power plant. The operations relating to URAH and ICH are all exempted from taxation.
The procedures and principles regarding the establishment, accretion and management of these accounts shall be prepared jointly by the Ministry and Treasury and come into force with the approval of the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and the Treasury State Secretary and after publication in the Official Gazette. The provisions of Law No. 6183 of 21 July 1953 Regarding the Collection of Public Debts are applied to those who do not pay their contributions on time. The revenues collected in the name of URAH and ICH may only be used within their purpose.
At the end of the fuel procurement and the operation period, the enterprise is obliged to decommission and dismantle the power plant under the criteria to be issued by TAEK. The enterprise must obtain insurance for the compensation of any damage that can arise during the construction of the power plant. Additionally, the enterprise is obliged to pay a contribution of 0.15 cent/kWh (in US Dollars) to meet all kind of financial costs concerning the transportation, the storage and/or the disposal of waste caused during the operation of the power plant and the costs of decommissioning at the end of the operational period of the power plant for each of the accounts to be formed. In case of an accident in the course of transport of radioactive material or radioactive waste or at the nuclear power plant, the 1960 Paris Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability, its additional amendments and other national and international liability provisions shall apply. The enterprise that constructs the power plant must allocate 1% of its annual revenue to research and development activities.
License Steps
- TAEK Approval
- TAEK Licenses (Site License, Construction License, Operation License)
- EMRA License
- Other Licenses and Permits (Operator’s License, permit for disposal of waste, fuel loading permit, capacity permit, transportation and transit passage permit, export-import permit)
