The money spent so far on the project for a second Bulgarian nuclear power plant in Belene cannot be restored unless a power plant is built, Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova said at the ATOMEXPO International Forum in Sochi, Russia...
Bulgarian Ministry of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova said in parliament that since mid-February the Belene NPP project has attracted serious interest from China’s largest state-owned nuclear company, CNNC. Last week, the European Investment Bank..
Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, who prepared the Belene NPP Report, have requested that the interim and final report on the viability of the project be fully declassified and published. According to scientists, this way..
The Bulgarian National Assembly will make the final decision whether this country should build a nuclear power plant in Belene or not, Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova told the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday. We wanted to find out..
The Russian energy corporation Rosatom has confirmed its readiness to work under the Belene NPP project. The Executive Director of Rosatom Central Europe Vadim Titov took part at a conference on sustainable nuclear energy. Rosatom signed with..
Representatives of Russia’s Rosatom atomic energy corporation were in Sofia a few days ago for talks on the delivery of equipment, manufactured for the second Bulgarian nuclear power plant at Belene, a project abandoned in 2102. The talks were..
The whole equipment of the two nuclear reactors for the suspended Belene NPP will be delivered to Belene by the end of 2017, Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova said on Wednesday. On Tuesday Minister Petkova met with representatives of..
Currently 20 percent of Bulgaria's gross domestic product is generated by the sphere of energy and related industries. This was pointed out by Valentin Nikolov, Bulgaria's representative at the World Energy Council, in an interview for the Bulgarian..
After at the end of 2016 Bulgaria paid what it owed to the Russian side for equipment produced for the stopped project for a second nuclear plant at Belene, this week it was reported that the two nuclear units will arrive to the country..
The suspended Belene project, which envisaged the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, was in a deadlock until recently. In 2012 the Bulgarian National Assembly suspended the fulfillment of the project due to political..
