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Bulgaria
Abandoned Constructions
2
Operating
2
Closed
4
Number of Reactors
(as of January 2026)
36,3
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of January 2026)
40.4%
Increase
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2023)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).
WNISR
Essential News –
28 March 2012
Bulgarian Government Abandons Belene Nuclear Project
28 March 2012
Bulgarian Government Abandons Belene Nuclear Power Plant Project Uploaded on 28 March 2012 Bulgaria’s Deputy Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov announced today that the completion of the two Belene reactors would be abandoned and that a natural gas fired plant would be built instead. The two 1,000
MW
units have been listed as “under construction” since 1987. The plant should have been completed by the Russian builder Rosatom. But the German utility
RWE
, that had been selected as (…)