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Bulgaria says nuclear plant ready for emergencies [Jan 06, 2012] SOFIA - Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant, Kozloduy, is ready to take action in case of natural disasters, technical failure or a combination of both, a report by the country's Nuclear Regulation Agency showed on Thursday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Submits Nuclear Plant Stress Test Report [Jan 05, 2012] The management of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency is submitting Thursday Bulgaria's national report on stress tests at the Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, "Kozloduy" and for the NPP "Belene" project. Following the accident at earthquake-stricken Japanese NPP "Fukushima," all European nuclear plants were mandated to make similar stress checks to identify measures to improve safety. Already in November ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Sole Nuclear Plant Sets Production Record [Dec 21, 2011] Bulgaria's sole Nuclear Power Plant, Kozloduy, set a record Tuesday with its two working units (Unit 5 and Unit 6), producing the highest quantity of electricity in their history. Shortly after 2 pm on Tuesday, the best result since 2008, when the annual production reached 15.765 billion kWh, was surpassed, announced the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Increase Capacity of Its Kozloduy NPP by 60 MW [Dec 20, 2011] The capacity of Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant, Kozloduy, will be increased by 60 MW as its generators will be replaced, it was announced on Tuesday. The reconstruction works will take two years and will cost EUR 30 M. "We are getting near to the fulfillment of that idea," Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Traicho Traikov told the Bulgarian National Radio.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria N-Plant CEO: Personal Foe behind Brutal Attack [Dec 06, 2011] The general director of Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant Kozloduy, who was attacked at the end of last month, has surprisingly said the assault was prompted by personal, not business motives. "I believe that the incident was on a personal basis. When I look back and recall the last few years I can not find anything done by me, which could have provoked this attack," Alexander Nikolov told the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Brussels: EU to Pay Bulgaria Extra EUR 185 M for Nuclear Dismantling [Nov 24, 2011] The European Commission proposed on Thursday to secure an additional EUR 185 M from 2013 to help Bulgaria dismantle four Soviet-era reactors at its sole nuclear power plant in Kozloduy. The European Commission suggests that the additional EU financial support, amounting to EUR 500 M, is disbursed for decommissioning the Soviet-era nuclear reactors in Bulgaria, Slovakia and Lithuania. The funding ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria N-Plant CEO Beaten in the Head, Life Not in Danger [Nov 22, 2011] The general director of Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant Kozloduy, who was attacked late on Monday, has been beaten black and blue, but his life is out of danger, police said. According to the police two unidentified assaulters attacked Alexander Nikolov while he was on his way home and brutally beat him on the head, tearing off part of his right ear. The attackers have fled the scene of the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria expects EC compensation for closed reactors [Nov 17, 2011] SOFIA -- Bulgaria expects to get additional EUR 45mn from the European Commission (EC) for shutting down Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant?s four reactors. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Moves to Increase Capacity of Its Kozloduy NPP [Nov 13, 2011] Bulgarian Kozloduy nuclear power plant will increase the capacity of its two working units to 104%, which will increase the output of each reactor to 1100 MW. If Kozloduy's two operational reactors, Unit 5 and Unit 6, work at 100% of their current capacity, their output would be 1040 MW each. The upgrade will cost less than BGN 1 M per MW, which will be considerably less expensive than the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Still Hopeful for Belene NPP despite Counter Suits with Russia [Aug 20, 2011] Even though it is tangled in counter-suits with Russia, Bulgaria's government still hopes that the talks for the Belene nuclear power plant project have a future, Mihail Andonov, head of the Bulgarian National Electric Company NEK has indicated. Andonov's milder statement comes a day after NEK declared that the Russian state company Atomstroyexport had failed to comply with the ultimatum issued ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Selects 5 Companies for N-Plant Stress Tests [Aug 04, 2011] Bulgaria has picked five companies to prepare the stress tests at the country's sole nuclear power plant in Kozloduy, a public procurement notice shows. Local consultancies Risk Engineering and Enpro Consult, US energy giant Westinghouse, which was recently signed to help extend the life of Units 5 and 6, WorleyParsons, consultant of Belene nuclear power project, and the Institute for Nuclear ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Strike Back at Russia with Lawsuit over Belene NPP [Jul 22, 2011] Bulgaria's Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism has made it clear that it is going to strike back at Russia's Atomstroyexport, a Rosatom subsidiary, with a counter lawsuit over the construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. Earlier on Friday Atomstroyexport, the company chosen to build the second Bulgarian NPP, the 2000-MW plant in Belene, formally confirmed Thursday night's reports in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Russia Extend Belene NPP Deal by 3 Months, Russian Funding Mulled [Jul 02, 2011] Bulgaria's National Electric Company NEK and Russia's Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Rosatom, have signed an annex extending by 3 months their contract for the construction of the Belene NPP, which should become the second Bulgarian nuclear power plant. The new "Annex No. 13" to the 2006 contract between the two state companies was inked late Friday night, the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Invest BGN 100 M in Extending Life of Kozloduy Nuclear Reactors [Jun 03, 2011] Bulgaria will need to invest over BGN 100 M in the extension of the life of the two operational 1000-MW reactors of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, according to its CEO Kostadin Dimitrov. Speaking at the Bulatom energy forum in Varna Thursday, Dimitrov said the technical surveying of the two reactors will last 18-24 months. It is expected to provide answers on how to go about extending the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria, Russia Still in Discord on Nuclear Project Price [May 26, 2011] Bulgaria and Russia are not getting closer in reaching an agreement on the price of the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in the Danube town of Belene. The announcement was made by Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, after a meeting in Brussels with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Schmatko, with the CEO of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Kozloduy NPP Among World's Most Tested - EconMin [May 20, 2011] Bulgaria's Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is among the most scrutinized NPPs in the world, according to the country's Energy and Economy Minister, Traicho Traikov. Four of the total of six units at Kozloduy were closed due to EU safety requirements, Traikov pointed out during the European Nuclear Forum in Prague, featuring European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger. The 440-MW Soviet-era ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Chernobyl Experience ? to Be Continued [Apr 28, 2011] On April 26 1986, the world's worst nuclear event took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR. Bulgaria is among the countries which remember the tragic accident most bitterly. As highly dangerous radiation quickly reached the country, its government officials refused to inform its own people for days, because the Soviet Union told them not to. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria: Increased radiation in plant reactor [Apr 28, 2011] SOFIA -- Reactor five of Bulgaria's nuclear power plant Kozloduy was temporarily shut down due to the increased radiation level measured in it, the plant operators say. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Kozloduy NPP Unit 5 Evacuated over Radiation Incident [Apr 27, 2011] The entire staff of Unit 5 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was evacuated over a detected increase of radiation rare gases on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The evacuation took place at around 10:45 am on Tuesday, and was revoked shortly before 6 pm when the situation was normalized, the Kozloduy NPP management announced Wednesday night. The incident is said to have caused no consequences. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Shuts Unit 5 of Kozloduy NPP for Maintenance Works [Apr 24, 2011] One of the two functioning reactors of Bulgaria's Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 5, has been turned off for its scheduled annual maintenance and refueling. The information was reported Sunday by the NPP management, cited by the Bulgarian news agency BTA. The routine procedure is under the requirements of the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulation Agency, says a statement of the Kozloduy NPP.... [via YahooNews] More >>