Current Events and News

"Kozloduy NPP - New Build" EAD and NuScale Power, LLC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the possibility of implementing nuclear technology based on small modular reactors in the Republic of Bulgaria.

A number of false and speculative statements have recently appeared in the public sphere and the media regarding the validity of the EIA Decision No. 1-1/2015 of the Minister of Environment and Water, which approved the investment proposal for the construction of a new nuclear power plant of the latest generation on Site 2 of the Kozloduy NPP, approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency.

On January 20, 2021, at its meeting, the government considered a report of a Working Group specially established by the Minister of Energy. The report presents in a synthesized form the analyses and assessments of the feasibility studies carried out by "Kozloduy NPP - New Build" in recent years.

Her Excellency Ambassador Hero Mustafa and her team visited the Kozloduy NPP in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding on Civil Nuclear Energy signed between the United States and Bulgaria on October 23.

In compliance with the conditions and measures of the EIA Decision, which approved the implementation of the project for the construction of a new nuclear capacity at the Kozloduy NPP site and the instructions of the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, described in the Order for the approval of the preferred site for the location of the nuclear facility, activities have been launched to prepare a Program for permanent environmental monitoring.

At its meeting on October 14, 2020, the Council of Ministers /CoM/ decided to undertake preparatory actions and study the possibilities for building a new nuclear power plant at the site at Kozloduy NPP approved by Order No. AA-04-30/21.02.2020 of the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, in the context of achieving the European Union's goals for climate neutrality by 2050 and diversification of energy resources.