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Westinghouse Delivers First VVER-1000 Fuel Reload to Bulgaria

Left to right: Aziz Dag, Senior Vice President, Global BWR and VVER Fuel Business, Westinghouse; Valentin Nikolov, CEO, Kozloduy NPP; Dimitar Glavchev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria; Vladimir Malinov, Minister of Energy; H.E. Kenneth Merten, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (Photo: Business Wire)

SOFIA, Bulgaria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company delivered the first reload of VVER-1000 fuel assemblies to Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in April, marking a key fuel diversification milestone in Bulgaria. The loading of the new fuel into KNPP Unit 5 was celebrated today at an event attended by Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Dimitar Glavchev, Minister of Energy Vladimir Malinov and the U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria Kenneth Merten. Westinghouse and KNPP signed a 10...

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