Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Traicho Traikov will demand additional details and guarantees on the safety of the future reactor at the Belene nuclear power plant, the ministry said in a statement on March 14 2011.
Traikov will request more information from both the reactor’s manufacturer, Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in connection with the incident at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.
The power facility has already been ordered by Belene’s contractor, Rosatom’s unit Atomstroyexport, and should be ready by mid-2011.
The reactor for the country’s second nuclear power plant, type B-466, is deemed safe enough for Bulgaria’s geological conditions, according to Traikov.
The ministry said that negotiations with Russia on the Belene project will continue this week.
source: dnevnik
