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The federal government will submit a proposal to the parliament to unfreeze the undertaking for the development of the Belene NPP, introduced Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Stara Zagora. In accordance with him, so as to begin actual talks with potential buyers, the parliament ought to give a mandate for this to the cupboard.
This could occur earlier than the assembly of the heads of state and authorities of the nations of Central and Japanese Europe and China in July in Sofia, in response to the press service of the Council of Ministers. Through the week, representatives of the China Nationwide Nuclear Company introduced that they’re within the building of “Belene”.
The curiosity of the Chinese language to enter the nuclear undertaking, which was terminated in February 2012, was introduced on the finish of 2016 after Bulgaria was pressured to pay 620 million euros to the Russian “Atomstroyexport” (ASE) for manufactured nuclear gear for the undertaking.
Formally, the choice on what the way forward for the Belene NPP shall be needs to be introduced in the summertime, after not way back the Nationwide Meeting requested to be supplied choices for the conclusion of the gear by the top of June. To satisfy this job, a working group has already been created within the Ministry of Vitality, which incorporates consultants from all firms associated to the undertaking – the Nationwide Electrical Firm, the Bulgarian Vitality Holding, the Kozloduy NPP and the State Enterprise “Radioactive Waste”. On the finish of final yr, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences issued a report, in response to which our nation and the area want new vitality capacities and that the Belene NPP could also be a worthwhile undertaking, albeit with sure circumstances equivalent to the price of loans, the expansion of consumption and different elements. The BAS report was additionally perceived as in search of knowledgeable assist for the resumption of the undertaking. As is thought, the arguments for the development of the second nuclear energy plant in it prevail.
Concerning the query of who will truly enter as an investor within the undertaking, the curiosity of the biggest state-owned vitality firm in China – China Nationwide Nuclear Company (CNNC) – is presently related. The curiosity of CNNC, in addition to different Chinese language firms, grew to become often known as early as 2016, however at the moment the federal government had not but determined whether or not to revive the development of the Belene NPP.
* There have been occasions when for Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the “Belene” NPP was only one objective
Caricature: A. Stankulov
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