The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated 200 km north of Sofia and 5 km east of Kozloduy, a town on the Danube river, near the border with Romania. It is the country's only nuclear power plant. The construction of the plant began on 6 April 1970. A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors generating nuclear power. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: sofia. ... Kozloduy (Козлодуй) is a town of 13,871 inhabitants in northwestern Bulgaria, located in Vratsa Province, on the river Danube. ... The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius, Turkish: Tuna) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

Kozloduy NPP manages six pressurized water reactors with a total output of 3760 MWe at present. Four are old WWER-440 V230 reactors and, under a 1993 agreement between the European Commission and the Bulgarian government, Units 1 and 2 were taken off-line at the end of 2002. Units 3 and 4 are scheduled to be taken off-line at the end of 2006, immediately prior to the planned date for Bulgaria's accession to the European Union. Units 5 and 6, constructed in 1988 and 1993 respectively, are newer WWER-1000 reactors. A pressurised water reactor (PWR) is a type of nuclear power reactor that uses ordinary light water for both coolant and for neutron moderation. ... MWe and MWt are units for measuring the output of a power plant. ... WWER, also known as VVER, are a series of pressurized water nuclear reactors PWR that were developed and used by the former Soviet Union and the present-day Russian Federation. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union is currently scheduled to take place on January 1, 2007. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

The plant single-handedly provides Bulgaria with 44% of its electrical demands and allowed the country to export about 20% of its electricity abroad, with Units 1 and 2 were taken off-line Bulagria currently, as of March 2006, exports about 14% of its electricity, however it has warned it may completely stop electricity exports in 2007 when Units 3 and 4 will be taken offline [1].

See Economy of Bulgaria. The economy of Bulgaria has contracted dramatically after 1989 with the collapse of the COMECON system and the loss of the Soviet market, to which the Bulgarian economy had been closely tied. ...

External links

• Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant homepage
• Bulgaria's Nuclear Regolatory Agency
• IAEA's Bulgaria links
• Article with diagrams