The Supreme Administrative Court has definitively turned down the appeal of the “Coalition for sustainable development” and Ecoglasnost against the environmental assessment of the project for a national low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste depository at the Kozloduy NPP site near the town of Kozloduy in Northwestern Bulgaria, the Radioactive Waste state enterprise which is implementing the project has announced.
The depository will be used for hazardous waste from power generation, medicine, industry, agriculture and science. The depot, which ought to be completed by 2021, costs 70 million euro to be provided from the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund for compensating for the early shutdown of reactors 1 to 4 of Bulgaria’s only nuclear power plant.
The new nuclear fuel is a safe and diversified source of energy, said caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev during a ceremony at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to mark the switchover to Westinghouse fuel in Unit 5 of the power station ...
The trips of Bulgarian citizens abroad in April 2024 were 707,900 or 4.9% more compared to April 2023. The largest number of trips were to: Turkey - 195,000, Greece - 149,400, Romania - 58,300, Serbia - 54,600, Germany – 34,800,..
Life expectancy in Bulgaria has increased by a year and a half, according to the latest data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) that compared the period 2021-2023 to 2020-2022. However, in comparison to 10 years ago, life..
On Tuesday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 10 and 12°C , 10°C in Sofia. In the afternoon it will be cloudy with short showers and..
Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev and the new ambassador of Turkey to Bulgaria, Mehmet Sait Uyanik, will visit the Bulgarian-Turkish..
On Wednesday , the lowest temperatures in the country will be between 9 and 13°C; in Sofia about 9°C. During the day there will be..
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