Bulgaria Shuts Reactor at Criticized Plant
<i> Associated Press</i>
SOFIA, Bulgaria —
A nuclear reactor criticized by international experts as unsafe was shut down Tuesday at the Kozlodui power plant, the government said.
Bulgaria’s only nuclear power station was planned to provide 40% of the nation’s electricity needs, but it is working at less than half its capacity. Two of its four old Soviet-designed reactors have been closed and one of two new and larger reactors is not yet in operation.
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