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Representatives of Chinese National Energy Administration visit site of Belene NPP

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Representatives of the Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) have visited the construction site of the Belene NPP to get acquainted with the equipment already supplied under the project for a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria.

The guests were welcomed by the Executive Director of the Bulgarian NEK, Petar Iliev, who showed them the measures taken for storing the Russian equipment supplied. The construction site of the power plant is 2500 decares. Necessary roads, a train line, a port and a concrete batching plant were built. The reactor unit and the turbine hall remain to be built, the Ministry of Energy added.



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