Bulgaria Seeks to Raise Capacity of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant
Bulgaria wants to increase the output capacity of its 2,000-megawatt Kozloduy plant on the Danube by 120 megawatts.
The plant has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Agency in Sofia about its plans to raise its capacity, which will require a licensing change, Sergei Tsochev, the regulator’s president, told reporters in Sofia today. The agency will be able to issue the new license by the end of 2013 if Kozloduy supplies all the necessary documents in time, he said.
The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant AD will also need to request approval to extend the operational life of its two reactors four years before they are due to expire in 2017 and 2019, Tsochev said. Bulgaria will seek to extend the two Russian-made units’ operation by 10 years, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said in June.
“To allow a service life extension we need to examine the aging of the reactors and to have part of the equipment replaced,” Tsochev said.
Kozloduy, which supplies some 40 percent of Bulgaria’s electricity, passed stress tests examining its resistance to earthquakes, floods, extreme temperatures and other natural disasters, the regulator said earlier today.
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