Hope people here will be more receptive to the Alexandrian Ideal.
The geopolitical reality of Slav-dom, first and foremost, and also of Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and others is that of being threatened by Pan-Germanism on the northern flank (Hohenzollerns, Nazis, Neo-Nazis etc.) and by Islamaniac imperialism on the southern flank. The Unity of these ethnicities can lead us to a better Europe and a better, FREE world!

Great idea, but Assyrians?? Huh? Don't get it, can you elaborate?

First they have to give human rights to the slavic minority in greece, second they have to stop trying to destroy the Bulgarian economy.

Bulgaria is a big energy exporter in the Balkans, Turkey for example is dependent on electricity from bg. For Bulgaria to improve its economy, to build up the industry etc. energy is important. If we don't have our own we would have to import it from greece, they want to make us dependent on them and make us pay heavy prices. This is completly unacceptable, greece is using the EU to blackmail bulgaria. For the bulgarian on the street, the nuclear plant means the bread on the table, his kids will have a future and so on. In the filthy western-liberal article below it says 'bulgaria torn between nuclear pride and EU goal' as if this is a thing about pride. What the article really says is that EU is good, and everything that doesn't suit them is some evil coldwar mentality for uncivilized people who haven't seen 'the light' of the EU.

The Czech Republic is in a similar situation, Austria's pro-hitler Joergh Haider is blackmailing the czechs, threatening them that if they don't shut down their nuclear plant, they wont get into the EU.

Our plants are described as something old, dark, coldwarish, something we have to throw away because they aren't politically correct in the EU.

Here is what really counts, the UN Atomic Safety Agency, their experts monitor plants all over the world. In the beginning of the 90's they gave bulgaria recomendations for what to fix and today they have went over the plant and said that bulgaria fixed all the faults and did even more than was asked of them.

The EU has no experts of their own, and now that they have come to realize that bg isn't backing down and also will build a new plant, EU will get experts, and they are the same ones that already have given us a green light. I recomend that the Czechs stand up to Austria, the EU and not backing one inch! Nobody should push slavs around and try to force us to become dependent on others.

Slavic Nuclear Power!

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READ THIS CRAP ARTICLE...

Bulgaria torn between nuclear pride and EU goal

Reuters

SOFIA - Bulgaria is walking a tightrope, haggling with the European Union over the fate of two ageing nuclear reactors while campaigning for early entry to the bloc.

Brussels wants Bulgaria to close old reactors at its Soviet-era Kozloduy nuclear power plant, which it considers cannot be made safe at a reasonable price. Bulgaria says it needs the electricity and cannot yet afford the shutdown costs.

A refusal to close Kozloduy's number three and four reactors by 2006 might derail Sofia's entry talks, government officials and diplomats say, hurting its paramount foreign policy goal of early EU accession.

"If we remain stuck on the energy talks we will not be able to meet our target of wrapping up entry negotiations by the end of 2003," a senior government official told Reuters.

Early closure would end Bulgaria's role as the leading power exporter in the region and raise domestic power bills, which the poor already find hard to pay.

Bulgaria has agreed to shut Kozloduy's two oldest reactors this year but wants the 20-year-old water-cooled three and four reactors to stay in operation until 2008 and 2010, as agreed with the EU in 1999, before Brussels changed its mind. Kozloduy's six reactors produce 3,760 megawatts, half of Bulgaria's energy. The Balkan country covers nearly half of the region's annual electricity deficit with power exports.

BULGARIANS OPPOSE CLOSURE.

The government faces pressure at home, where people vehemently oppose the closure, calling it a national betrayal.

"Bulgarians are inexplicably sentimental about Kozloduy. It is so strange that there is not a single voice saying the plant might be unsafe," a Sofia-based EU diplomat told Reuters.

People fear a return of the power rationing of the 1980s and 1990s from before Kozloduy was fully onstream.

To please both critics at home and the EU, the government last week agreed to close the two reactors by end-2006 if Brussels will send experts to check safety next year.

Sofia hopes the inspection will prove the units are safe to operate and allow it to negotiate later closure.

A June mission by the IAEA, the world nuclear watchdog, concluded the government had addressed all safety issues at Kozloduy, says Energy Minister Milko Kovachev.

If Sofia fails to extend the reactors' lives it wants compensation from Brussels, following the example of Lithuania, which is shutting its nuclear power plant to gain EU entry, says European Integration minister Meglena Kuneva.

Other officials admit Sofia's chances of winning EU sympathy are small, given that many member states want Kozloduy shut.

"We are running out of time and should act fast because Greece, the severest Kozloduy's opponent is taking over the EU presidency in January," a cabinet official added.

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AND THIS ARTICLE, NEW BG PLANT IS BELIEVED TO MEET EU STANDARDS? WHAT STANDARDS? THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN EXPERTS TO SAY WHAT STANDARDS THAT SHOUD BE, IT'S THE UN Atomic Safety Agency THAT TELLS THE EU WHAT'S WHAT.

Bulgaria to resume suspended nuclear plant project.

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgaria, which has agreed to shut down several reactors at its only nuclear plant due to EU safety concerns, said Friday it would restart construction of another nuclear reactor mothballed in 1990.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lyubomir Todorov said that work would resume within weeks near the Danube port of Belene, 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Sofia.

Bulgaria invested $1.2 billion in the project before construction was frozen 12 years ago after pressure from environmentalists.

A Czech-built 1,000-megawatt reactor is in place at the Belene site. Canada's state nuclear energy company, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., and SNC-Lavalin Inc., a Canadian engineering and construction company, have displayed interest in building the plant. There is also Russian and Czech interest.

It was unclear how the European Union would react to Bulgaria's plans, but the Czech-built reactor is believed safe enough to meet EU standards.

Under an agreement with the European Union, Bulgaria has agreed to close the oldest two units at its only operating nuclear plant near Kozlodui, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Sofia by the end of this year. The shutdown of two other Kozlodui reactors by 2006 is also being discussed with the European Union.

The Kozlodui plant provides 45 percent of the country's electricity. It has four 440-megawatt pressurized water units without safety encasements installed between 1974 till 1982 and two newer 1,000-megawatt encased reactors.

The European Union says the older reactors pose safety risk and wants Bulgaria to shut them down permanently if it wants EU membership.

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THE EU WILL LEARN THAT IT CAN'T FORCE SLAVS TO GIVE UP THEIR FUTURE.

EU-BULGARIA-N-PLANT.

BTA

Seminar on Future of Bulgarian Nuclear Energy Held in Brussels.

Brussels, October 1 (BTA exclusive by national television correspondent Zornitsa Venkova) - A seminar dedicated to the future of nuclear energy opened in the European Parliament in Brussels Tuesday. It was organized at the initiative Bulgarian Atomic Forum, BULATOM, and the Association of European Nuclear Industry. Participating were Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, representatives of the European Parliament and atomic safety organizations.

"At this forum we can put forth the new Bulgarian stand on the Energy chapter of the acquis, the more so that the European Parliament follows closely the Kozlodouy problem and has adopted a declaration on it, and we owe it this updated information," said Kovachev.

Within the seminar 40 members of the European Parliament signed a declaration reading that a decision on the closure of N-plant units in the EU applicant countries should be based on the same principles as the ones operating in the member states. The MEPs note that as a result of the programme implemented in the past decade on improving safety at Kozlodouy, the plant's units 3 and 4 meet completely the respective requirements. They add that the IAEA's conclusions support this view.

The declaration notes the presence of adequate legislation and the independence of the nuclear control bodies in Bulgaria, as well as the key significance of Kozlodouy N-plant for the economic stability and growth of the country and its neighbours.

The MEPs call on the European Council and the European Commission for flexible approach to the demands for the early closure of the plant units 3 and 4 as a condition for the country's accession to the EU. They ask the European Commission to invite various energy regulation organizations to assess the safety levels at units 3 and 4.

"Most of the experts which the IAEA used during its mission in Bulgaria were from Europe. They did their work conscientiously, came up with a technical expertise and I don't see why they should change their mind," said Annique Carnineou (name might be misspelt), chief of IAEA's Safety of Nuclear Installations department.

Late on Tuesday Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller commented that the Bulgarian Government's decision to close Units 3 and 4 brings Bulgaria closer to the EU. He added that he sees no reason to oppose the request for a mission of experts to assess the units.

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Pay No Heed to EU Claims for Kozloduy.



Beltcho Tsanev

To give up this scientific achievement is sheer madness, says Prof. Andre Maisseu.

Prof. Dr. Andre Maisseu is an engineer. He is 50 years old. Prof. Maisseu graduated from the university of Cannes and the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology. He became a Doctor of Physics in 1971 and Doctor of Economics and Management, in 1976. Currently he is a professor in the university of Versailles and teaches in four US universities. Mr. Maisseu is the chairman of WONUC (World Council of Nuclear Workers).

- Mr. Maisseu, Greece has repeatedly raised voice against the N-plant in Kozloduy. You remember the referendum in Austria against reactors in Check and Slovak Republics. Why for decades people have been trying to instill fear of nuclear energy?

- The world is progressing due to the achievements of science and technology. The nuclear energy is one of them. It would have been madness to give up megatechnology like the N-plant in Kozloduy. It is maybe the one and only access Bulgaria has to high-tech of the 21st century. If you give up this nuclear plant what options will remain? To turn the country into a Euro Disneyland and lure in tourists?

- What will you recommend to us?

- Because Bulgaria is pressed into closing several units in Kozloduy, the country nowadays finds itself at one of the crucial turns of its history. If France today ranks among the highly developed countries it's due to the investments in nuclear energy, telecommunications, space and aircraft industry. To your country the decommission of reactors in Kozloduy would be tantamount to suicide. I cannot imagine what would we have done in France if someone told us to close our nuclear power plants. Most probably we would have made a revolution.

(Abr)

Assyrians should not be ignored just because they're a TINY minority. A whole lot of bricks help make the wall of secutity around the resurgent Alexandrian Commonwealth. The PRIME prerequisite of Our World is the reconciliation of Serb and Bulgar. This ideal of reconciliation makes the Turks and Pan-Germans tremble because it EMPOWERS and gives SouthSlavs LEADERSHIP, POTENTIAL & VICTORY!

POWER TO THE ALEXANDRIAN RENAISSANCE!

As for the greeks, they are with the Germanics, together with Austria they blackmail the slavic states Czech Republic & Bulgaria.

This forum is not about joining forces with non-slavs, just about making slavs respect each other more, not to go on some crusade or anything...geez..

Regarding the Assyrians, I don't think this ethnic group lives within the sphere of Slavic influence/control. I thought the majority of Assyrians live in Iraq?? As such I don't recognize the importance of this minority to Slavic much less Greek issues..

Öàð Ñàìóèë is correct, politically (especially in modern times) Greece has not been the best of friends to their Slavic neighbors. Although we share Orthodoxy and a mutual abhorrence of Islam, Greece has exploited and manipulated the ethnic differences between Balkan Slavs to its benefit at the expense of Slavs.. As such although Greece shares some cultural and religious ties I do not agree an alliance would benefit all ethnicities as you propose Gobzhad.

BULGARIA - NUCLEAR PLANT - YUGOSLAVIA.

Belgrade, October 8 (BTA) - Yugoslav professor Neso Mijuskovic advised against early closure of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria because, he said, the plant is essential for energy security in the Balkans, B92 radio reported October 8.

It has been recommended to reduce the output capacity of this nuclear power plant and to decommission it gradually, Mijuskovic said. On the one hand, the plant represents a considerable danger for the region: there may be a certain environmental risk. On the other hand, there is the real danger of the entire region facing a very uncertain future in terms of electricity supply if nuclear power plants are closed too soon, he said.

Mijuskovic addressed the fourth conference of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society held in Belgrade September 30-October 4. The issue about the future of the energy sector in the Balkans attracted particular attention during the conference.

Most participants expressed the view that in the following two decades the Balkan countries will be confronted with a shortage of electricity which can only be offset by building new nuclear power plants.

A moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants is still effective in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav "nuclear lobby" expects the Serbian Government to at least lift the ban on research in this field, so that the country will be able to prepare for the future which, they believe, belongs to nuclear power generation, B92 said.

Krunoslav Subotic, Director of the Vinca Institute for nuclear research, said on B92 radio that the Serbian Government should make a decision on this issue as soon as possible. Yugoslavia may remain without a nuclear power plant for another 10 or 20 years, but if it wants to have such a facility someday, research must begin at least ten years before that, Subotic said. He mentioned European plans, according to which three decades from now nuclear plants should meet one-third of electricity demand.

Energy expert Nenad Djaic said Yugoslavia can still use other energy resources, such as coal, oil and gas, instead of nuclear resources. Raising energy efficiency is the best way for Serbia to avoid building nuclear power plants, Djaic said.

The conference of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society was attended by guests from some 20 countries.

Does this look rusty, old and coldwarishly scary? The EU(greece) thinks so.



I'll dig up some info and pics about the plant in the Czech Republic and how it's going over there.

PPRESIDENT-KOZLODUY-N-PLANT.

President Purvanov: Bulgaria Should Defend Its Stand on Units 3, 4.

Sofia, October 15 (BTA) - "Those who claim Kozloduy N-plant's Units 3 and 4 should be closed down do not have any arguments to back up their stand. Bulgaria's position is strong and we should find a way to defend it," President Georgi Purvanov told a meeting Tuesday with nuclear power engineering experts, ministers and MPs. The meeting discussed a draft letter on the N-plant's Units 3 and 4 from the Bulgarian head of state to the presidents of the 15 EU members states and senior officials in the European Commission and the European Parliament.

The letter will be ready in a couple of days and will be based on the Parliament's position, which is Bulgaria's position, said the President. In early October the National Assembly adopted a decision that the closure of Units 3 and 4 should not precede the country's accession to the EU as a full member.

According to President Purvanov, the Bulgarian position is becoming increasingly consolidated, despite the existing awareness that it would be difficult for the demand for a peer review of the units' reactors to take the upper hand.

Taking up a question, Purvanov recommended "to some of our friends abroad, no matter whether ministers or ambassadors, to refrain from making statements which could be interpreted as an attempt to exert pressure."

Purvanov said that there are consistent arguments on the fate of the N-plant based on the findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Bulgaria's aim is to prompt a peer review that will convince the EU the country can keep Units 3 and 4 running, said he, adding that he hopes the peer review will take into consideration IAEA's conclusions.

The meeting was attended by Energy and Energy Resources Minister Milko Kovachev, European Affairs Minister Meglena Kouneva,Deputy Foreign Minister Petko Draganov, Nuclear Regulation Agency Chairman Emil Vapirev, Kozloduy N-plant Executive Director Yordan Kostadinov, MPs of all parliamentary forces, Civil Committee for the Protection of Kozloduy N-plant Chairman Stefan Vodenicharov, BULATOM Governing Board Chairman Evgeniy Balabanov, Bulgarian Nuclear Association Chair
Krassimira Ilieva and Bulgarian Energy Forum President Ivan Hinovski.

In Energy Minister Kovachev's words, the Parliament's decision is the strategy, while the Government's position is the tactics for translating this decision into reality.

Kovachev added that Bulgaria has the resources and a technical design for the prompt decommissioning of Kozloduy N-plant's Units 1 and 2.

"The Government has not discussed the possibility to withdraw its position of September 26; this is the position on which we are negotiating," said European Affairs Minister Kouneva, adding, "We do not see any conflict between the Parliament's decision and the Cabinet's position."

Ramadan Atalay of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms said the position of the Parliament and that of the Cabinet, although worded in a different way, have one and the same aim: to protect Units 3 and 4, taking into consideration Bulgaria's future entry into the EU.

According to Coalition For Bulgaria Deputy Floor Leader Roumen Ovcharov, the Government "continues to beat about the bush". The single position of the president, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Union of Democratic Forces, as well as the bulk of the experts is that the valid stand is that of the Parliament and it is the strong one, said Ovcharov, adding that the Parliament's responsibility is to conform to the National Assembly's decision.

Ovcharov stressed that the West knows nothing about what has been done about the units' safety and the President's letter will be of great use in this department.

Nikolai Mladenov of the United Democratic Forces said that the president should write two letters: one to the EU countries for a change of their stand regarding the deadlines for the closure of Units 3 and 4, and another one, insisting that the Cabinet conform to the National Assembly decision. Mladenov said that Tuesday's debate did nothing to lead him to believe that the Government will comply with the Parliament's decision in its next steps.

The UtdDF will move for a no confidence vote in the Cabinet because of Kozloduy if all the other parliamentary control mechanisms are exhausted and the Government does not comply with the Parliament's decision.

http://www.vmro.bg

IMRO Starts Rallies In Defense of NPP.

Standartnews
Raina Haralampieva


The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) organizes series of protest rallies all over the country in defense of the Kozloduy NPP, IMRO Leader Krassimir Karakachanov said yesterday. The first rally is to take place in Plovdiv on November 21, then in Rousse, Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia. "We are protesting against the cabinet's refusal to take into consideration the stand of the National Assembly on NPP, Karakachanov elaborated. Despite the pressure exerted by the BP and UDF, the cabinet refuses to withdraw their stand from the EC, on the decommissioning of Reactors 3 and 4 by end-2006.

BSP leader Sergei Stanishev headed the rally of 3,000 protestors against the decommissioning of Reactors 3 and 4 of the NPP Kozloduy in Sofia yesterday. The rally was organized by IMRO (Internal Revolutionary Macedonian Organization) and the Civil Committee on Defense of the NPP. The BSP leader together with his deputy Rumen Petkov and MP Emilia Maslarova walked all the way from the National Palace of Culture to the building of the Council of Ministers, with a brass band following them.

BULGARIA - N-PLANT - PROCESSION.

Some 3,000 March in Procession in Defence of Kozloduy N-Plant.

Sofia, December 2 (BTA) - More than 3,000 persons joined a procession in Sofia Monday against the closure of generating units of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. The protest action in Sofia was organized by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO), the Radicals Bulgarian Democratic Union and the Citizens Organization in Defence of the Nuclear Power Plant.

VMRO leader Krassimir Karakachanov and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev marched at the head of the procession.

The protestors stopped in front of the Council of Ministers building.

The marchers carried placards reading "We Want Referendum" and "VMRO: Let's Defend N-Plant." They chanted "Resign!" and "Referendum!"

"Bulgaria is neither economically nor technically prepared for the closure of Kozloduy units," Radicals Union Deputy Chairman and former N-Plant director Danail Tafrov told BTA. He argued that the closure of Units 3 and 4 will have an adverse effect not only on Bulgaria but regionwide.

Upon closure of Units 3 and 4, electricity prices will be hiked 30 per cent, said another former Kozloduy director, Krassimir Nikolov. In his opinion, these units can operate until 2030 after their modernization.

In connection with the protest action, the Executive Committee of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) circulated a declaration insisting on a national referendum on the future of Kozloduy Units 1 to 4. In the declaration, CITUB calls on the parliamentary political forces and above all on the ruling majority of the Simeon II National Movement and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms "to formulate a new philosophy for the 2003 budget, backed by an economic and social policy marking a fundamental departure from previous practices, with a view to guaranteeing a new business environment and a new quality of life to people."

Asked at a news conference to comment on the procession against the closure of Kozloduy genereating units, Government Spokesman Dimiter Tsonev described it as a sequel to the two motions of no confidence in the Government, submitted by the right-wing and left-wing opposition parliamentary parties and defeated in a National Assembly vote on Friday.

"This is an initiative which, in a different form, is trying to support something that has already been decided in absolutely definitive terms through a parliamentary procedure. Parliament resolved to reject the motions and to mandate the Government to carry on its policy on the Energy chapter."

In response to a question, he reiterated his opinion, citing the results of a public opinion poll he announced last week, that a large part of the Bulgarian public is not clear about the benefits of Bulgaria's full membership of the EU and about the financing provided to this country by the pre-accession facilities.

Kozloduy NPP is Exemplary Plant.

Standartnews
Raina Tosheva


You have fallen victim to hypocrisy and prejudice, maintains John Rich, director general of the World Nuclear Association.

John Rich has been heading the World Nuclear Association from January 2002. For 7 year he has been the US envoy to the UN organizations in Vienna. He aalso represented his country in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

- Mr. Rich, it is still a popular belief in Europe that the Bulgarian nuclear power plant is dangerous.

- You can be proud of the high technical expertise of the personnel in your nuclear power plant. Bulgaria can be an example to other countries in this respect. In fact you have confronted with arrogance, hypocrisy and prejudice. We shall spread a word about it among all European structures and nuclear power engineering companies.

(Abr)