page_title: Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant
section_title: Ownership
hierarchical_section_title: Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant / Ownership
caption_attribution_description: English: A view inside the control and monitoring room of Unit 5 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. Български: Изглед от вътрешността на залата за управление и контрол на Блок 5 на АЕЦ Козлодуй.
context_page_description: The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated 120 kilometres north of Sofia and 5 kilometres 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 pressurized water reactors with a total gross output of 2000 MWe and 1966 MW net. Units 5 and 6, constructed in 1987 and 1991 respectively, are VVER-1000 reactors. 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 unit by 30 years. A seventh 1,000 MW unit may be installed, using a part manufactured reactor from the terminated Belene project for which Bulgaria has paid €600m.
  The older and smaller Units 1 to 4 were all shut down by 2007.
  Two spent fuel storage facilities are part of the power plant.
context_section_description: Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a subsidiary of Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD.
caption: Inside the control room of Unit 5
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