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by Boris I Mihail (no login)
Bulgaria to resume suspended nuclear plant project
Fri Oct 4, 6:57 AM ET
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.
BULGARIA INTENDS TO GIVE UP 2 old 440 REACTORS AND RE-PLACE THEM WITH A NEW 1.000 REACTOR (the Czechs have the EU safety license already )...
AND BTW. WE KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH SUPERPOWERS (study the story of our Jews) AND TO DO EVERYTHING OUR WAY... STUBBORNNESS IS IN OUR BLOOD.
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