{"id":18399,"date":"2012-04-09T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:01:29","slug":"belene-nuclear-power-plant-canceled-bulgarian-pm-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/04\/belene-nuclear-power-plant-canceled-bulgarian-pm-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Belene Nuclear Power Plant Canceled, Bulgarian PM Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria has quit the <strong>Belene<\/strong> Nuclear Power Plant project, the country&#8217;s Prime Minister has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During today&#8217;s [28 Mar 2012] Council of Ministers Sitting, we decided to terminate the <strong>Belene<\/strong> Nuclear Power Plant project,&#8221; Borisov told reporters. He added that Bulgaria will pay a further EUR 140 M in order to acquire the reactor initially intended for <strong>Belene<\/strong> that is to be completely ready in October.<\/p>\n<p>The reactor will be placed in Bulgaria&#8217;s sole nuclear power plant, <strong>Kozloduy<\/strong>. Borisov pointed out that the country would have had to pay approximately EUR 10 B for the construction of <strong>Belene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot afford to pay for it, and there is no way we can make future generations pay,&#8221; the Prime Minister declared. He further reminded of the potential risk the project would have posed, as the nuclear power plant was to be built in a seismically active region.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Bulgaria&#8217;s newly appointed Economy and <strong>Energy<\/strong> Minister Delyan Dobrev will travel to Moscow in order to inform Russia of his country&#8217;s decision to scrap the <strong>Belene<\/strong> <strong>NPP<\/strong> project.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>natural gas<\/strong> power plant will be built in the Danube town of <strong>Belene<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novinite.com\/view_news.php?id=137969\" >Go to Original \u2013 novinite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria has quit the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project, the country&#8217;s Prime Minister has confirmed. &#8220;During today&#8217;s [28 Mar 2012] Council of Ministers Sitting, we decided to terminate the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project,&#8221; Borisov told reporters. &#8220;We cannot afford to pay for it, and there is no way we can make future generations pay,&#8221; the Prime Minister declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}