The two part-built units at the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant could be finished with unused equipment from Bulgaria's discontinued Belene nuclear power plant project, with President Volodymyr Zelensky signing into law the legal framework for the acquisition.
An application for a permit to determine the location of the planned unit 8 at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant has been submitted to Bulgaria's Nuclear Regulatory Agency.
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has backed the plan to purchase unused equipment from Bulgaria's cancelled Belene nuclear power plant project to complete Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant's units 3 and 4.
The company has signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant to conduct safety analysis for licensing a new nuclear fuel assembly design for Kozloduy unit 6.
The US Trade and Development Agency has signed two grant agreements to support Bulgaria's nuclear ambitions: one will support a cost-shared feasibility study with US company Deep Isolation to support the safe underground disposal of used fuel from Bulgaria's nuclear power plants, while the other will support a prefeasibility study for the deployment of small modular reactor technology.
The project company planning to build two new AP1000 reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant site has invited interested parties to participate in pre-qualification for the provision of engineering consulting services.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Westinghouse and Kozloduy NPP - New Builds have signed an engineering contract for new capacity at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant.
Westinghouse has announced it has signed an extension to the Front-End Engineering and Design contract for two new AP1000 reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant.