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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedNUCLEAR ENERGY : COMMISSION APPROVES GAZPROM'S BULGARIAN NUCLEAR PLANT.
Europe Energy, December, 2007
Despite safety concerns raised by activists including a former president of the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, the Commission has given a favourable opinion to a new nuclear power plant (NPP) in Belene, northern Bulgaria. The main contractor for the two unit NPP, with a total installed electrical capacity of 2000 MWe, will be Gazprom's nuclear subsidiary Atomstroyexport. The consortium behind the main sub-contractors is to be constituted by France's Areva NP and Germany's Siemens.
The Commission's 7 December decision, under articles 41 to 44 of the Euratom Treaty that requires any new nuclear investment to be communicated to the Commission, was widely expected. In early November, the Commission had to contradict a statement by Bulgaria's power grid...
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