On the same day that Russia threatened Georgia and Belarus with a natural gas cutoff, a member of the European Parliament from Finland asked that the European Commission reconsider the closure of a pair of Bulgarian nuclear reactors. Bulgaria had previously agreed to decommission the reactors as a condition of joining the European Union.
Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Energy, Electricity, Home Heating, Natural Gas, Oil, Russia, Electricity, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia
Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Energy, Electricity, Home Heating, Natural Gas, Oil, Russia, Electricity, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia
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The Bulgarian reactors are, apparently, a Russian-designed PWR reactor, not an RBMK like Chernobyl. However, they don't have a full containment building, unlike western reactors.
Bulgaria is apparently planning to build a new, Russian-designed, nuclear plant to replace the lost capacity and more besides.
If things go ahead as planned Russians will benefit greatly over the coming generation from gigantic gas exports to Europe.