The Greens in the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to withdraw its support from the project for Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant Belene.

Rebecca Harms, a German MEP who co-chairs the European Parliament's Green group, said Belene nuclear power plant must not be built because it is too dangerous.

"The nuclear power plant will be located in an area of seismic activity. Its construction has not been launched yet and the European Union should prevent it," Rebecca Harms said at a press conference in Brussels on consequences for the EU energy policy following the nuclear accident in Japan, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio.

Representatives of the environmental group Greenpeace, who also attended the press conference, warned that two weeks ahead of the deadline for Sofia and Moscow to agree on whether to build two 1,000 megawatt reactors at Belene, a delegation of the Russian company Atomstroyexport is arriving for secret talks in Sofia on Wednesday.

The Russian experts will join a forum, gathering together suppliers in the nuclear industry, and are expected to be assured that the construction of Bulgaria's second nuclear power project Belene, which has stalled over price disputes and funding problems, will go ahead.

Just a day earlier EU Energy Commissioner, Gunther Oettinger, called for re-examination of Bulgaria's plan to build a second Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in the Danube town of Belene.

Meanwhile Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, reiterated Tuesday that Bulgaria may decide to build a new unit at it sole Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, on the Danube River, instead of Belene.

The plant was originally to be built by Russian company Atomstroyexport for EUR 4 B. The firm had signed a contract with the previous, Socialist-led government, swept from power by Borisov's conservative GERB party swept in last year's July elections.

Bulgaria's new center-right government suspended the construction of the nuclear power plant until it finds a new investor and funds to complete the project at Belene, on the Danube, 180 kilometres northeast of the capital Sofia.

Due to the delays in the launch of the construction works Russia now says the project construction price should be increased to EUR 6.3 B , while Sofia insists it will pay no more than EUR 5 M.

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