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Vice PM Assen Vassilev has no information about an incident at Kozloduy NPP

Assen Vassilev.
Photo: BGNES

MPs from BSP for Bulgaria and There is such a nation parties demanded that MPs from the Vazrazhdane party be sanctioned for inciting panic. 

During the parliamentary question time Tsoncho Ganev from Vazrazhdane asked the government whether they had informed the Nuclear Regulatory Agency and the IAEA that at the end of May after the scheduled annual repair of unit 5 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant there had been a fire, which compromised nuclear safety
Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev said he had not received a report from the Nuclear Regulation Agency about an accident at the plant. In a statement, Kozloduy NPP categorically denied all allegations of a fire at the plant.



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