On Friday 3 November, the Bulgarian Minister for Energy announced that the Bulgarian nuclear regulatory body had approved a 10-year extension (up until 2027) for the license to use Reactor 5 at the nuclear power plant in Kozloduy.
The Bulgarian nuclear regulatory body based its decision on an audit provided by the Russian Rosenergoatom and French EDF energy companies in 2016 for the first of the two Soviet built VVER 1000 megawat water pressure reactors that began operating in 1988 and...