Charlotte
23-01-06, 09:51 PM
Reactors 3 and 4 of NPP Kozlodui have not had their day
Mr. Ivanov, are reactors 3 and 4 of the NPP Kozlodui done with? According to Bulgaria's commitment to the EU, these two reactors have to be decommissioned by the end of 2006?
- I don't think that Bulgaria's cabinet has surrendered with the decommission of reactors 3 and 4. Reactors 3 and 4 should not be described as "goners", because they are just perfect in technical and safety respect.
European Commissioner, Geoffrey Van Orden, has personally convinced himself in the perfection of these two reactors and in the fact that Bulgaria and the Balkan region desperately need them.
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- What is you forecast regarding the price of power if these two reactors are decommissioned and do you think that there will be a power restrictions in Bulgaria as an aftermath?
- I wouldn't say that there will be any power restrictions in Bulgaria if reactors 3 and 4 are decommissioned. But the power export, which brings fresh money into this country, will slump. The prices of power will go up. The increase in the prices of crude oil will most probably be followed by a hike in the prices of natural gas. The stabilizing factor on the Balkan power market will disappear if reactors 3 and 4 are decommissioned. As it is known, their power output is 1,760 megawatts. Bulgaria sells 48% of the traded on the Balkans power and this country covers 90% of the breakdown deficit in the region. The decommission of reactors 3 and 4 will lead to an increase in the power prices. As a chain reaction this will lead to hikes in all prices. The European tax-payers will not be happy with covering Bulgaria's losses, even if the EU countries are ready and willing to cover its losses at all. In order to make up for the lower power output, generated in reactors 3 and 4, Bulgaria will have to seek options to increase the power production in its thermo-power plants (TPP). Increase of power generation in the TPPs will lead to the emittance of sulphur dioxides and carbon dioxides into the European sky. And since the sky has no borders and customs, the wind currents will carry and spread these poisonous emitions all around the Old Continent. Thus, all the EU residents will breath in these hundreds of tons of harmful substances.
Raina Tosheva
Ivan Ivanov has been the director of NPP Kozlodui since July, 2005. Mr. Ivanov started working in the NPP Kozlodui in 1972 and has occupied 37 different posts during his long service. His career was standard for operators - from the lowest post to the post of chief technologist of reactors 5 and 6.
Mr. Ivanov was the Deputy General Director of the National Electric Company (NEC) during the caretaker government of Stefan Sofianski.
He was the Deputy Director of NPP Kozlodui from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Ivanov left this post for family reasons. During Ivan Kostov's rule, Mr. Ivanov was out of the NPP Kozlodui's structures. He was restored as Deputy Executive Director of the NPP Kozlodui on September, 14, 2001. His wife, Radka Ivanova, is in charge of the radio-chemistry sector of 5th and 6th reactors. Her sector controls the the nuclear fuel. His son, Yavor, graduated from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and has a tegree in power engineering and technology. He also works in NPP Kozlodui.
http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2006/01/23/english/interview/index.htm
Mr. Ivanov, are reactors 3 and 4 of the NPP Kozlodui done with? According to Bulgaria's commitment to the EU, these two reactors have to be decommissioned by the end of 2006?
- I don't think that Bulgaria's cabinet has surrendered with the decommission of reactors 3 and 4. Reactors 3 and 4 should not be described as "goners", because they are just perfect in technical and safety respect.
European Commissioner, Geoffrey Van Orden, has personally convinced himself in the perfection of these two reactors and in the fact that Bulgaria and the Balkan region desperately need them.
http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2006/01/23/pics/468413a.jpg -
- What is you forecast regarding the price of power if these two reactors are decommissioned and do you think that there will be a power restrictions in Bulgaria as an aftermath?
- I wouldn't say that there will be any power restrictions in Bulgaria if reactors 3 and 4 are decommissioned. But the power export, which brings fresh money into this country, will slump. The prices of power will go up. The increase in the prices of crude oil will most probably be followed by a hike in the prices of natural gas. The stabilizing factor on the Balkan power market will disappear if reactors 3 and 4 are decommissioned. As it is known, their power output is 1,760 megawatts. Bulgaria sells 48% of the traded on the Balkans power and this country covers 90% of the breakdown deficit in the region. The decommission of reactors 3 and 4 will lead to an increase in the power prices. As a chain reaction this will lead to hikes in all prices. The European tax-payers will not be happy with covering Bulgaria's losses, even if the EU countries are ready and willing to cover its losses at all. In order to make up for the lower power output, generated in reactors 3 and 4, Bulgaria will have to seek options to increase the power production in its thermo-power plants (TPP). Increase of power generation in the TPPs will lead to the emittance of sulphur dioxides and carbon dioxides into the European sky. And since the sky has no borders and customs, the wind currents will carry and spread these poisonous emitions all around the Old Continent. Thus, all the EU residents will breath in these hundreds of tons of harmful substances.
Raina Tosheva
Ivan Ivanov has been the director of NPP Kozlodui since July, 2005. Mr. Ivanov started working in the NPP Kozlodui in 1972 and has occupied 37 different posts during his long service. His career was standard for operators - from the lowest post to the post of chief technologist of reactors 5 and 6.
Mr. Ivanov was the Deputy General Director of the National Electric Company (NEC) during the caretaker government of Stefan Sofianski.
He was the Deputy Director of NPP Kozlodui from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Ivanov left this post for family reasons. During Ivan Kostov's rule, Mr. Ivanov was out of the NPP Kozlodui's structures. He was restored as Deputy Executive Director of the NPP Kozlodui on September, 14, 2001. His wife, Radka Ivanova, is in charge of the radio-chemistry sector of 5th and 6th reactors. Her sector controls the the nuclear fuel. His son, Yavor, graduated from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and has a tegree in power engineering and technology. He also works in NPP Kozlodui.
http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2006/01/23/english/interview/index.htm