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The ownership of the land under the Belene Nuclear Power Plant might turn out to be a thorny issue, according to Yassen Atanassov. Photo by BGNES
One commonly overlooked fact about Bulgaria’s planned Belene Nuclear Plant is the ownership of the land, which might create extraterritoriality issues.
This view was expressed in an interview for Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) by Yassen Atanassov, a founder and activist of the Bulgarian “Greens” Party.
“We may talk about Bulgaria being energy-independent, but I don’t see anything independent in a piece of Bulgarian land being turned de facto into Russian territory,” Atanassov said claiming he had the information on the land ownership question from several different sources.
The environmentalist illustrated his point by asking what could Bulgaria do if the Russian side refused to export the nuclear waste of the future power plant from the country.
The Russian company Atomstroyexport was selected in 2008 by the Bulgarian authorities to build the Belene Plant, which is going to have two Russian VVER reactors.
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