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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant [Mar 28, 2012] Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria abandons nuclear project for gas power plant instead [Mar 28, 2012] Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build the 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River and will construct a new gas power plant instead, a deputy finance minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Socialists Slam Quitting Belene N-Plant [Mar 28, 2012] Bulgaria's former energy minister, part of the previous Socialist-led coalition, has blasted the decision of the current center-right government to abandon plans for a second nuclear power plant in Belene. Bulgaria?s government announced on Wednesday it has abandoned plans to build a new, 2000 megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River for which it has contracted Russian state firm ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria scraps plans for second nuclear plant [Mar 28, 2012] SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ? Bulgaria's government has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria scraps plan for Russian-built nuclear plant on the Danube, opts for natural gas [Mar 28, 2012] SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant [Mar 28, 2012] Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday.After a government meeting, Vladislav ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Mull Blasting Danube Ice [Feb 28, 2012] The level of the Danube river a the Bulgarian port of Silistra has continued to rise, with ice starting to float again overnight. Bulgarian authorities have said they will ask their Romanian counterparts to blow up ice that has covered the great river some 30 km downstream in Romania to free the movement of waters. Overnight the level of the Danube at Silistra has risen with 14 cm to 648 cm ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria?s Silistra Alerted over High Danube Level [Feb 27, 2012] The level of water at Bulgaria's Danube town of Silistra has reached 634 cm, with a rise of 197 cm as compared to yesterday, it has been announced. Bulgaria's Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River has informed that inspections of the river are now carried out every hour instead of once every three hours as usual. At the city of Ruse, the water level has decreased ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Severe frost paralyzes Danube shipping [Feb 12, 2012] Bulgaria and Romania are suspending all shipping on the Danube River due to severe frost and the vast amount of ice blocking the heavily traveled waterway, Bulgaria's Transport Ministry said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania to Set Up JV to Run New Danube Bridge [Dec 21, 2011] Bulgaria's government has approved a draft agreement with Romania for the creation of a joint venture to operate the future "Danube Bridge 2", the second bridge to link the two Balkan states over the Danube river. The Cabinet in Sofia has granted a mandate to Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski to negotiate the signing of the JV agreement with the Romanian side on the bridge linking Bulgaria's ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Axes Danube Agency Chief amidst Record Low River Level [Dec 12, 2011] Bulgaria's Transport Ministry has fired Georgi Georgiev, head of the Bulgarian Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River based in the Danube city of Ruse. The news comes amidst record just as record low level of the Lower Danube, i.e.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Romania Put Off Key Danube Waterway Expansion [Dec 08, 2011] Bulgaria and Romania have agreed to delay a project for the expansion of the waterway of the Danube River until after 2014. This has become clear from Thursday's announcement of the Bulgarian Transport Ministry on the reallocation of funds from the EU Operational Program Transport approved by the Bulgarian Committee for the Supervision of the program's implementation. The Committee sitting was ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Govt Sets Up Danube Navigation Info System [Oct 09, 2011] Bulgaria's government has moved to absorb EU money for the creation of an information system of the navigation of the Danube River. Earlier this week, the Transport Ministry and the Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company, a government body, signed a contract for financial aid from the Ministry to the Company for the creation of the info system that will cover the Bulgarian section of the Danube ... [via YahooNews] More >>

EU Danube Strategy Paves Way for Bulgaria's Bright Future - Regional Devt Minister [Jun 30, 2011] The EU Strategy for the Danube Region is expected to contribute in a number of crucial ways for Bulgaria's development, Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev has declared in Ruse. Plevneliev hosted a news conference on a boat in the Danube River off Ruse's coast on Thursday, together with Hungarian Ambassador to Buglaria Judit Lang, Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister in charge of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Customs Capture 30 kg Heroin on Danube Ferry [May 23, 2011] Bulgarian customs officers caught a shipment of 30.5 kg of heroin on the Danube river ferry between Bulgaria's Vidin and Romania's Calafat. The heroin was discovered in the gas tank of a car Sunday night, the Customs Agency announced. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Issues Danube Navigation Warning, River Level Critical [May 02, 2011] There are five critical navigation spots in the Bulgarian section of the Danube River resulting from its drastically low level, according to the state authorities. The level of the Danube at the city of Ruse is only 189 cm, and is expected to decline by 20 more cm in the next two days, announced Georgi Georgiev, head of the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia eyes stake in Bulgarian power [Feb 22, 2011] SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Serbia wants to take a stake in Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant in Belene on the Danube River, the country's prime minister said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Fortum, Altran Interested in Bulgaria Atomic Plant [Dec 01, 2010] Bulgaria is negotiating with Rosatomover the price of the 2,000-megawatt plant at Belene on the Danube River and both sides are seeking investors in the project, Energy and Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said Tuesday in Sofia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Extend N-Plant Contract with Atomstroyexport - Report [Oct 10, 2010] Bulgaria's contract with Russia's Atomstroyexport, commissioned to build the planned 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear plant on the Danube River, which has stalled over lack of funding, will be extended by six months, reports say. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria May Extend Contract with Russia's Atomstroyexport (Novinite.com) [Mar 25, 2010] Bulgaria's contract with Russia's Atomstroyexport, commissioned to build the planned 2,000 megawatt Belene nuclear plant on the Danube River, will probably be extended by three months, according to reports. [via YahooNews] More >>