ANKARA

Three Turkish women who have been studying at Moscow's National Nuclear Research University are preparing to become pioneers at Turkey's first nuclear power plant.

Aysel Karacak, 25, Merve Sahin, 24, and Ozlem Arslan, 28, were awarded scholarships under a joint project between Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom and Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to start working at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in the southern port city of Mersin.

The students told Anadolu Agency about the six and a half years of education they have received, being women and minorities in the field and opportunities the power