A new unit at Kozloduy NPP to be built after a tender

“The contractor for the construction of a new unit at the Kozloduy NPP will be selected in a tender,” PM Boyko Borissov said yesterday after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the US company Westinghouse and the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH). The document sets out all the options for cooperation in atomic energy - from the construction of new generators and their modernisation to the decommissioning of old nuclear power plants. “The Government is doing everything possible for Kozloduy NPP’s units 5 and 6 to operate for at least another 10 years,” PM Borissov said.

“The first sod for the Belene NPP was turned three times because the tenders were conducted in such a way as to know the winner in advance. Therefore, the foundations of the generators had to be built several times,” added PM Borissov. “Now, having signed contracts with Westinghouse, France’s Areva and Russia’s Rosatom, we can choose companies to supply fuel or repair the units. We have put security first and price, efficiency and diversification second,” specified PM Borissov. Westinghouse has again presented its nuclear reactor AP 1,000, to be considered as an option for the future unit 7 of the Kozloduy NPP.

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