Bulgaria Resumes East Europe's Biggest Atomic Project in Decades
- Government will start tender inviting bidders for Belene plant
- Options range from Chinese investors to Russian investment
A worker stands at the construction site of Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant in the town of Belene in 2008.
Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images.
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Bulgaria’s parliament gave the green light to resume construction of an abandoned nuclear plant that may become one of the biggest power projects in eastern Europe in decades.
Lawmakers voted 172 to 14, with 2 abstentions, to lift a six-year ban on a 2,000-megawatt plant at Belene on the Danube river, Speaker Tsveta Karayancheva told the assembly in Sofia Thursday. The motion lets the government start a tender for a strategic investor without state guarantees or preferential power purchase prices, according to the decision.