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SOFIA, May 27 (Reuters) - Bulgaria’s state nuclear power plant Kozloduy reconnected on Thursday its 1,000 megawatt (MW) nuclear reactor Unit 5 after a planned maintenance and refuelling, the plant said.
Kozloduy, situated at the Danube River, said in a statement that the reactor was reconnected to the national power grid at 0651 GMT, after a clearance by the country’s nuclear regulator. The reactor was shut on April 17.
Its other 1000 MW reactor, Unit 6, whose capacity was temporarily decreased by 50% on May 25 after a shutdown of a pump in its non-nuclear part, was working at a gross load of 752 MW, information at the plant’s website showed. (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova)
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SOFIA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant reconnected one of its two 1,000 megawatt (MW) units late on Friday after a protection system shut it down following a routine technical operation earlier in the day, the plant said on Saturday.
“At 11:08 pm local time (2108 GMT) on Jan. 22, Unit 5 at Kozloduy Nuclear Plant has been reconnected to the grid,” the plant said in a statement.
At present, the reactor is working at 779 MW of its capacity, data from the plant showed. The real time gross load at the plant’s other unit was 1,021 MW. (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by William Mallard)
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SOFIA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has shut down one of its two 1,000 megawatt units after a protection system was activated at its Unit 5 following a routine technical operation, a senior Bulgarian official said on Friday.
“During a technical operation the automatic defences activated at 0117 a.m. local time. All systems have been checked and there is no reason for concerns in the public,” Ramadan Atalai, a member of the parliamentary energy commission told the national BNT channel.
A press officer at the Kozloduy plant confirmed the unit was automatically shut and there was no radioactive contamination. (Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)