Remember earlier in the week when the consortium bidding to build Turkey’s first nuclear reactor announced the cost of the electricity produced would be three times Turkey’s current price?

Well, it seems the Turkish government weren’t as amused as we were:

The Turkish government is likely to cancel a tender for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant by rejecting a bid from a Russian reactor builder, a Turkish paper said on Wednesday.

Excellent news. And this was after the Russian-led consortium had revised their ludicrous first figure. It seems Tetas, the energy company commissioning the reactor, didn’t like the second price either. If all nuclear commissioning processes were like this, we could pack up and go home. The nuclear industry is its own worst enemy.

The cancellation of the tendering process now brings the number of failed attempts to commission a nuclear reactor in Turkey to five. You would have thought the government would have got the message. But are they downhearted? Are they discouraged? No...

In this case, new tenders for the construction of the nuclear power plant will be held.

We await the next tendering process with anticipation. Can the Turkish government outdo itself and make it even more farcical than the last?