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Publish date: November 13, 2007
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The press centre of the National Electricity Company in Bulgaria informed that after examining the documents sent to the General directorate Energy and Transport towards the European Commission the European experts draw the conclusion that the preliminary agreement from last year for the construction of Nuclear Power Plant Belene is not in contradiction with the agreement for the creation of a Nuclear Energy European Community and therefore it could be realized.
The contract is expected to be signed in December and the building will start most probably in January 1st 2008 and is expected to finish in 2014, the Serbian news agency Tanjug informs.
The project’s value is put at roughly EUR4bn. According to earlier reports, Atomstroyexport won a tender for the construction of the Belene plan in Bulgaria on October 31, 2006. The company has been commissioned to implement intergovernmental agreements on building nuclear facilities abroad, and is now engaged in the construction of seven power generation units in China, India, Iran and Bulgaria.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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