Bulgaria said Friday it was considering extending by 20 years the operational life of its sole nuclear power plant, at Kozloduy, near the Romanian border.
Bulgaria said Friday it was considering extending by 20 years the
operational life of its sole nuclear power plant, at Kozloduy, near the
Romanian border.
The plant, which currently operates two pressurized water reactors with a total
output of 2,000 megawatts, has asked Russian company Rosenergoatom and
Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) to conduct a safety review.
An extension to their operational life will depend on this safety review, the
government said in a statement.
The plant's two reactors are currently due to come off line in 2017 and 2019,
after nearly 30 years in service.
In March,
Bulgaria
said
it was abandoning a project for a new 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant at
Belene, on the
Danube
, to be built by Russian
company Atomstroyexport.
A 1,000-megawatt reactor, destined for Belene and which the government says is
mostly paid for, is to be installed at Kozloduy instead, though it wasn't
immediately known if this will replace one of the existing reactors.
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