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Bulgarian government drops Belene
Bulgaria will not go ahead with the completion of a new nuclear power plant at Belene and instead wants the Russian-supplied reactor that was to have been installed there to become the seventh unit at the existing Kozloduy site.
New Nuclear
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
Russia threatens to stop Belene work
While the deadline for the signing of the project agreement for Bulgaria's planned Belene nuclear power plant approaches, the government continues to seek partners to help finance the project. Russia's AtomStroyExport warned that it will stop work on the project unless the agreement is signed.
New Nuclear
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
EU advised to take stock of decommissioning contributions
The European Court of Auditors has called for a more "effective, efficient and economical" use of financial contributions from the European Union (EU) towards the decommissioning of power reactors in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Kozloduy seeks uprate approval
Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant has notified the country's Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA) about its plans to increase the generating capacity of units 5 and 6 by a combined 120 MWe (gross), Bloomberg reported. The uprate would require a licensing change, according to NRA's president, Sergei Tsochev. He said that the agency would be able to issue a new licence to the plant by the end of 2013, provided that it was supplied with all the necessary documents in time. Tsochev noted that the Kozloduy plant will also need to seek approval to extend the operating lives of the two Russian-supplied VVER-1000 units four years before their current licences are due to expire, in 2017 and 2019, respectively. In June 2011, Bulgarian prime minister Boiko Borissov said that the country will seek to extend the reactors' operation by ten years. "To allow a service life extension, we need to examine the aging of the reactors and to have part of the equipment replaced," Tsochev said.
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