Bulgaria's Nuclear Games

Novinite Insider » OPINIONS | Author: Milena Hristova |October 1, 2012, Monday // 15:09
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Nuclear Games

If Bulgaria's numerous U-turns on plans for a second nuclear plant make you feel dizzy, you are not alone.

Half a year after many of us went jubilant over the decision to abandon the construction of Belene's two 1,000-megawatt reactors on the Danube, the project was miraculously resurrected.

Only to be frozen again on Monday over an upcoming referendum.

Is this a deliberate game to force people just get sick of it all? Or evidence of incompetence?

How come a mysterious investor suddenly turns up, representing even more mysterious interests?

Is it because the investor's consultants are trying to drag their feet, confident that Borisov will not prove to be the first prime minister in a former communist country to get reelected?

Or may be the consortium is just trying to find out whether to construct the plant or buy cheap the equipment and later resell it at a nice yield?

We all know that nuclear energy is a solution to more than climate change for all energy experts hoping to pile up wealth on Belene project.

Small wonder that when in March this year I predicted this scenario, I was not alone.

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