Friday, January 6, 2023

Goodbye Moscow: "Bulgaria agrees nuclear fuel supply deal with France's EDF"

From Reuters via Nasdaq, December 30:

Bulgarian state-owned nuclear power plant Kozloduy on Friday signed a deal with Framatome, a unit of French utility EDF EDF.PA, to supply it with nuclear fuel for its 1,000 megawatt Russian-built Unit 6 as it cuts dependence on Russian supplies.

Bulgaria, which currently relies on Russian nuclear fuel for both units at the 2,000 megawatt Kozloduy plant, signed a similar contract with Westinghouse Electric Sweden for Unit 5 earlier this month.

The Kozloduy plant, on the Danube River, produces about 35% of the country's electricity....

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