Bulgaria To Start Building Belene Nuke in 2009 - Official
07.01.2008
The head of the country’s regulator said on Monday that Bulgaria will start construction works on the planned Belene nuclear power and it will be start no sooner than 2009.The leader of Bulgaria’s Nuclear Regulation Agency, Sergey Tsochev announced that the regulator is to rule on the technical details of the project and the proposed measure yet.
On Friday, the European Commission said it cleared Bulgaria's plans to build the plant at Belene on the Danube, using Russian reactors, but that is far from the final approval needed for it to go ahead, Tsochev added.