site.btaDecember 31, 2002: Unit 1 of Kozloduy N-plant Is Decommissioned
Early on December 31, 2002, Ilia Barakov, the officer on duty at the Central Control Unit of the Energy Ministry, pressed the button to shut down Unit One of the Kozloduy N-plant. The entire procedure - from the dispatcher's command to the disconnection of the reactors from the national energy system - was overseen from the control centre by Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, his deputy, Angel Minev, and the press, Kozloduy, December 31, 2002 (BTA Photo/Bistra Boshnakova)
On December 31, 2002, Unit 1 of the Kozloduy N-plant was taken off stream, honouring commitments linked to Bulgaria's EU accession. Unit 2 was switched off a day earlier.
These were the N-plant's oldest reactors.
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