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French firm picked to decommission Kozloduy reactors

Tue, Jun 16 2009 17:54 CET byAlex Bivol 1422 Views
French firm picked to decommission Kozloduy reactors

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French firm ONET Technologies signed the contract to start dismantling four nuclear reactors at Bulgaria's Kozloduy power station, Agence France-Presse quoted company officials as saying.

ONET would compress nuclear waste left in the four reactors to 10 per cent of its initial volume and then remove it. According to company director Guy Veidig, that was "the first concrete step towards dismantling" the reactors.

Bulgaria disconnected the two oldest 440MW reactors from the power grid in 2003, followed by two more reactors with a similar installed power in 2006, just before it joinedthe European Union.

"This will be the beginning of the irreversible process of decommissioning the four reactors," AFP quoted the deputy head of Kozloduy power plant, Valentin Ribarski as saying.

ONET would not physically dismantle the reactors, with a separate tender launched to choose the company that would do that, according to AFP.

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