Dobrev: We are not secretly constructing the Belene NPP

On Sunday, Minister of Economy and Energy Delian Dobrev denied in front of BNR allegations by the opposition that the cabinet of Borissov is secretly continuing the construction of the Belene NPP. The suspicions of the right-wing opposition, namely the Blue Coalition, were triggered by a letter to the Mayor of Svishtov by Marin Angelov, manager of Trafoelectroinvest.

In the letter, he asked for the construction of a high-voltage line providing a connection for future facilities that will be built on the site of the Belene NPP.

"The actions of Marin Angelov aroused suspicions among the opposition, and especially in the Blue Coalition, that we are 'secretly' building the Belene NPP,''said Delian Dobrev on BNR and added that because of this Angelov was fired on Thursday.

The Minister assured that no public money has been spent on the request of Marin Angelov and expressed his hope that there will be no other similar cases.

"If this government wanted to build, and if it thought that we could finance it, it wouldn't have stopped the project for the Belene NPP as early as in March," emphasised Delian Dobrev.

"We have absolutely no concerns about the extension of the service lives of the 5th and 6th units of NPP Kozloduy," added Delian Dobrev. According to him, the head of the plant Valentin Nikolov was in Moscow in connection with the modernisation of the reactors.

According to him, this is the first priority of the government in the energy sector. Moreover, the new block to the existing plant could be built in 10 years.

The Minister added that the plant in Belene would be built in a shorter period, but he explained that the construction of a new unit at the Kozloduy NPP is worth it.

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