February 1 is Day of Remembrance and Respect to Victims of the Communist Regime in Bulgaria. On this day, in 1945, 3 regents, 67 MPs, cabinet ministers, generals, colonels and bankers were sentenced to death and were shot on the same day. The..
Can tourism be dark and gloomy and even evoking painful memories and emotions? The answer is clearly seen in the great interest shown in possibilities for visiting abandoned old factories, administrative buildings, hospitals, churches,..
The cost of completing the two units of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant will be between 8 and 9.5 billion euro, estimates by the Bulgarian Atomic Forum Bulatom show. Almost 1.5 billion euro has so far been spent on the project. Bulatom has..
Two former ministers of energy – Rumen Ovcharov and Petar Dimitrov – have been charged over the project for the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria at Belene, BNR’s Horizont channel learnt from the Specialized Criminal..
The Bulgarian Parliament will decide whether to build the Belene NPP or use the available equipment to build Unit 7 of the Kozloduy NPP. This was answered by Bulgaria's Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova in Parliament to a parliamentary question..
The US is proposing that Bulgaria give up its plans to build a second nuclear power plant in the country, France Presse reports, citing the US embassy in Bulgaria. The project for a second Bulgarian NPP at Belene has been shelved multiple..
North Macedonia is temporarily withdrawing from investment in Bulgaria's Belene nuclear power plant and focuses on the Greek gas plant in Alexandroupolis. This was what CEO of North Macedonia's state-owned electricity producer Elektrani, Vasko..
In an open letter to Bulgarian and European institutions the Bulgarian Atomic Forum demands that nuclear energy be included in the EU Green Deal and be given financial support for its development, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports...
The United States keeps its position against construction of continuation of the Turkish Stream to Bulgaria and against the construction of Belene NPP. This was said by Francis R. Fannon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) at..
Bulgaria is not in a situation when it is necessary to send to the European Commission a new notification for the completion of the Belene NPP project. Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has told bTV that Sofia has no obligation to notify Brussels..
