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Bulgaria exploring option of more reactors at Kozloduy plant

Thu, Nov 26 2009 17:14 CET

byAlex Bivol

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Bulgaria exploring option of more reactors at Kozloduy plant

The site of the future power plant at Belene.

Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Bulgaria's Cabinet will have the results of a feasibility study concerning the construction of a new 1000MW reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear plant in December, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said on November 26.

The Government was keen to leave no possibility unexplored, Traikov said, but would not speak further about the odds of another unit at Kozloduy, other than to say that it was "in the double digits".

The decommissioning of four 440MW reactors, shut down in 2005 and 2006 as a pre-requisite for Bulgaria's accession to the European Union, freed some of the existing infrastructure, Traikov said. Building two 1000MW reactors, however, would be "difficult", he said.

Analysts have said that it would be much cheaper for Bulgaria to build one or two reactors at Kozloduy than the second planned nuclear power plant at Belene, downstream from Kozloduy on the Danube River. In October, Traikov said that the total costs of Belene would reach 10 billion euro, including a four-billion euro fixed fee to Russia's Atomstroyexport, picked to build the two 1000MW reactors.

On Belene, Traikov said that the Cabinet would start the process of picking a consultant to advise the Government on the new "project framework". Bulgaria said that the planned project needed an overhaul after German utility RWE withdrew its bid to buy 49 per cent in the company that would build and operate the plant.

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