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Photo Gallery: Belene nuclear power plant, 28 years later
Photo: Георги Кожухаров
Photo: Георги Кожухаров
Photo: Георги Кожухаров
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
Photo: Георги Кожухаров
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
The construction site of Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant on the Danube, 28 years after after the project was given a green light by the then communist government.
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Relentless pursuit
Russian executives visit Sofia in quick succession to give traction to transnational undertakings, pounding away at Sofia’s resolve
Moscow in talks with Sofia over stake in Belene NPP
An action plan for the project should be put together within two or three weeks
Death knell?
Are Bulgaria’s three major energy projects with Russia about to be scrapped?
Germany's RWE pulls out of Bulgaria's Belene nuclear plant project
The world economic downturn and problems with the project's execution cited as the reasons.
Russia seeks Bulgarian re-assurance on Belene nuke
Russian officials have once again asked Bulgaria to make a decision on the future of the planned nuclear plant at Belene, Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said
RWE mulls withdrawal from Belene nuclear station - report
Last year, RWE's management has strongly defended the decision to buy 49 per cent in Belene, despite increasing pressure from environmental groups in Germany and lukewarm shareholder support for the deal.
Bulgaria may give Belene nuke project a chance
State could limit its stake in the Belene nuke project and encourage private investors
Economy Minister: Bulgaria does not need Belene nuke
Bulgaria's second planned nuclear station at Belene on the Danube River could be a viable economic project, but Bulgaria did not need it to prevent electricity shortages and black-outs, minister says.
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There is, in my opinion, a case to be made for the need of a "base-load" nuclear power plant, allthough as many others will agree, it is an extreme - and likely unwise - "solution". Many rest in the comfortable bliss of ignorance regarding this technology. I have met many.
Likewise others "bliss" comes from a similar lack of knowledge regarding "windfarms". Current (80m high) "technology" is quite unable to support itself, and yet is put-forward as if it were some kind of alternative which we simply had to choose. It ISn't an alternative, in its current [...]
Read the full comment form, which is hopelessly out of tune with physical reality. On the other hand, a serious desigh of wind-energy system can not only sustain itself, but Grow at several percent p.a. without energy other than from the wind. Not only that, but it does not affect the landscape even as much as existing "power lines", since the Turbine-Alternator(note) Devices are fittable in their millions into existing architecture. 5% p.a. of cost is readily achievable, and much more in super-sites such as west coasts of uk. The uk government, for one, must be aware of this by now, yet continues to pay their friends to wreck the countryside with "windfarms", which actually exacerbate Global warming .
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Its looking good. As expected.