Nuclear power

The Supreme Administrative Court has definitively turned down the appeal of the "Coalition for sustainable development" and Ecoglasnost against the environmental assessment of the project for a national low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste depository at the Kozloduy NPP site near the town of Kozloduy in Northwestern Bulgaria, the Radioactive Waste state enterprise which is implementing

Bulgaria's state nuclear power plant Kozloduy reconnected on Sunday its 1,000 megawatt Unit 5 nuclear reactor after successfully completing increased capacity tests on July 13-14, the plant said, reports Reuters. 

After the successful completion of the latest upgrades of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant's upgrading project to 104% achieved during the planned annual renovation this year, the final tests are scheduled for 13 and 14 July 2019 .

Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed on July 4 for the first time that a top-secret military submarine hit by a fatal fire three days ago was nuclear-powered, prompting Russia's defence minister to assure him that its nuclear reactor had been contained.

About 3,200 staff will work at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant currently being constructed in Turkey's southern province of Mersin once it goes online, with 1,000 of them to be Turkish nationals, the human resources director of Akkuyu Nuclear JSC has said.

A one-year milestone in the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) is indicative of the successful cooperation between the partner countries to the plant; Russia and Turkey, the plant's project company, Akkuyu Nuclear announced on April 5.         

"In Serbia, a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants is in force, but it is certain that one day we will build a nuclear power plant, once there is no more electricity from classic sources," he told Prva TV.

Speaking about the moratorium, Puzovic said it was introduced 18 years ago will expire in two years, unless it is extended.

The Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Ministry is sending 32 students to Russia and China in a bid to provide human resources for planned nuclear power plants in Turkey.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez has said trees were not cut down for a nuclear power plant project which is planned to be built in the Black Sea province of Sinop, but were cut for "industrial use."

The European Commission has confirmed that the resumption of Belene NPP after shutdown in 2012 needs to be reassessed as to whether it complies with European rules and whether it complies with the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom Treaty) and possibly with the project to get approval again.