The next Bulgarian Parliament will most likely decide whether to build the Belene nuclear power plant, or to build Unit 7 of the Kozloduy NPP, Valentin Nikolov, Chairman of the Parliamentary Energy Committee, told BNR. In his opinion, the second..
After 01.00 on January 22, Unit 5 of Kozloduy NPP was disconnected from the country's energy system. The reason is the activation of protection system during routine operations. There is no deviation from the normal radiation situation, the..
The government has approved a report on the possibilities of building a new reactor on site 2 at Kozloduy NPP. The environment assessment has approved the technology of the American AP 1000 units and the Russian technologies for..
E quipment for the project for Bulgaria’s second nuclear power plant of Belene could be used for building a seventh unit of Kozloduy NPP, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has said. Bulgaria has already paid about 0.7..
The government has given the green light to the procedure for the construction of the 7 th nuclear reactor at Kozloduy NPP. Currently, this only Bulgarian nuclear power plant has two Russian reactors with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts each,..
“There is no way the country can give up on building new units for the Belene NPP project. One of the reasons is that the coal-fired power stations should be done away with and replaced by emission-free options. The implementation of t he..
“We are going to construct Unit No. 7 of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant using a technology that is completely different,” PM Boyko Borissov said, as quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA. During an inspection of the power plant, Boyko..
Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova held an extraordinary briefing on Saturday. “The news that Premier Borissov agreed to close Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant at the last meeting of the European Council is manipulation and fake news”,..
Bulgaria's future membership in the Nuclear Energy Agency from January 1, 2021 has been discussed in a telephone conversation between Bulgaria'sEnergy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova and the Director-General of OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)..
Today, the planned annual repair of one of the two operating units of the only nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, Kozloduy NPP. This is unit number 5. During the repair period, equipment and systems will be subjected to regular maintenance operations, as..
