The construction of the future Unit 7 of the only Bulgarian nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Kozloduy should be completed in 2022, according to NPP CEO Valentin Nikolov.
Nikolov told reporters in Sofia Friday that 2022 was "an optimistic forecast" for the construction of the new 1000 MW nuclear unit.
"Everything depends on the talks with the Russian side about the specific nuclear reactor," Nikolov said, referring to the fact that Bulgaria's Borisov Cabinet decided to build a 7th unit at the Kozloduy NPP after in March 2012 it gave up on the construction of a second Bulgarian nuclear power plant in Belene, Novinite.com reports.