The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated 180 kilometres (110 mi) north of Sofia and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Kozloduy, a town on the Danube river, near the border with Romania. It is the country's only nuclear power plant and the largest in the region. The construction of the first reactor began on 6 April 1970. Kozloduy NPP currently manages two pressuriz. HistoryThe nuclear power plant Kozloduy was the first nuclear power plant in and in. The beginning of Bulgarian nuclear energy was established on July 15, 1966, with the signing of an agreement. Kozloduy NPP previously operated four older reactors of the VVER-440/230 design, but under a 1993 agreement between the European Commission and the Bulgarian government, Units 1 and 2 were taken off-line at the b. Units 5 and 6 are -1000 reactors, construction of which finished in 1987 and 1991 respectively. By 2017 Unit 5 was to be upgraded to reach a capacity of 1,100 MWe, as part of a programme to extend the life of the u. Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a subsidiary of. In 2012 Bulgaria's government decided to start the construction of a new reactor in Kozloduy af.
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