Nuclear power plant

A unit of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria has been switched off to undergo repair, plant officials have said.

The repair is scheduled to go on until mid-May. Unit 5 will then be loaded with new nuclear fuel.

Currently, Unit 6 is working at full capacity under all safety arrangements.

"This is in important project for Romania. Next month will we sign the agreement for setting up a joint company with a Chinese partner, a company which will build up two new reactors at the Cernavoda plant," Romanian Energy Minister Andrei Gerea said on Friday. 

Romanian nuclear energy company Nuclearelectrica hopes to finalize an agreement on the construction of units 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda nuclear plant with China General Nuclear Power Corp by end-2015.

The Chinese nuclear power utility was the sole bidder for the tender organized by the Romanian government.

Unit 5 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP) was reconnected to the power grid late on Friday night.

Earlier on Friday, the unit was disconnected due to an automatic activation of the electrical protection of the generator, Darik radio reports.

After an inspection it was established that the fault was due to a defective control device, which was replaced.

At 20:28 on January 3, following the activation of electrical protection system, the generator of unit 6 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant was disconnected from the power grid.

All systems of unit 6 of the Kozloduy NPP functioned in lined with the design algorithms, according to the press office of the N-plant.

Ukraine's nuclear utility Energoatom has cast more light on the accident at the Zaporizhye nuclear plant which officials reported earlier on Wednesday.

State-owned Ukrainian utility Energoatom has cited a failure of the voltage transformer at the Auxiliary Power Unit as a reason behind the development, according to UNIAN news agency.

A Turkish nuclear plant to be built by Japanese-French consortium will be ready is set to come online by 2023, the same year as the one hundredth anniversary of the Turkish republic

Russia's state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom has said it is prepared to use new supply routes and alternative transportation methods to bring nuclear fuel to Bulgaria.