News
Publish date: December 8, 2003
News
The Bulgarian Energy minister announced this in Sofia, RIA Novosti reported. The Soviet designed reactors no.3 and no.4 of VVER-440 type have 880 MW total capacity. They were put in opearation eight years after the first two Kozloduy reactors, which are closed down. In November experts of the European Commission executed the planned peer review on units 3 and 4 of the nuclear power plant in Kozloduy. Antonio Madonna, head of the special EU mission to Bulgaria said that all EU recommendations concerning the safety of the plant have been met. The European Union allowed the reactors no.3 and 4 to operate until 2006. After that the EU Ministers Council will decide the destiny of these two reactors. The 1,000 MW Reactors no. 5 and no.6 satisfy the safety requirements of the European Union. The Kozloduy NPP generates 40% of the Bulgarian electricity.
Following Kazakhstan’s country-wide vote in favor of building a nuclear power plant earlier this month, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun a courtship of officialdom in Astana, the country’s capital, in apparent hopes of landing a contract to construct it.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.