Bulgaria Thursday opened its first dry cask storage facility for spent fuel from its sole nuclear power plant at Kozloduy on the banks of the Danube.
Bulgaria
Thursday opened its first dry cask storage facility for spent fuel from its
sole nuclear power plant at Kozloduy on the banks of the
Danube
.
The facility--built by German consortium NUKEM-GNS at a cost of EUR70.5 million
($100 million)--will be used to store spent fuel from four reactors at the
plant that were shut down in 2002 and 2006.
Until now,
Bulgaria
has
shipped part of its spent fuel back to supplier
Russia
so as
not to overload its spent fuel pools.
The construction costs were covered by funding from the European Union that
Bulgaria
received as compensation for shutting down four of Kozloduy's six reactors as
part of
Sofia
's
E.U. accession in 2007.
Two other 1,000-megawatt reactors remain in operation and the plant operators
plan to expand the dry cask storage facility in the future so that it can also
hold spent fuel from those two reactors.
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