2024-06-06 10:45:30
“Bulgaria should be very cautious and demand to know what the ultimate worth will probably be for the development of recent nuclear services, as a result of they’re began underneath sure circumstances, however finish after 15-20 years underneath utterly totally different monetary parameters. I’ll work with the Bulgarian governments and parliament to have larger readability and extra severe ensures”. This was said by the pinnacle of state Rumen Radev on the worldwide nuclear convention “Bulgarian nuclear vitality – nationwide, regional and international vitality safety” yesterday night, which is organized yearly by the Bulgarian Atomic Discussion board (BULATOM), stories the press workplace of the president.
The President identified that after a few years there’s political will for Bulgaria to develop its nuclear vitality, however he wish to see a continuation of the method began by the official cupboard with Prime Minister Galab Donev within the fall of 2022. Then the caretaker authorities signed an settlement with Westinghouse for the diversification of nuclear gas and determined that Framatom would additionally provide nuclear gas to the Kozloduy NPP, which, nevertheless, has not but been carried out.
Bulgaria has the proper to demand and select with a purpose to obtain the very best circumstances for the gas of the Kozloduy NPP and to have actual diversification, the president identified. “If we’re speaking about competitors, which is the premise of the market economic system and of our European democratic values, there needs to be competitors. And all choices, licenses, phrases, places, worth, nuclear threat assure, and so forth. needs to be placed on the desk,” the pinnacle of state emphasised.
The president additionally famous that he doesn’t declare to be “on the stage of the “nuclear physicists” within the Bulgarian parliament, the place probably the most outstanding scientists within the subject of nuclear vitality work, who in just some hours made selections on precisely methods to develop nuclear vitality in Bulgaria and with precisely what applied sciences”. Rumen Radev added that the questions stay as to who, how and by what methodology, by what scientific strategies and analyses, makes the selections that predetermine the way forward for Bulgarian vitality and the way the precept of competitors is revered.
The pinnacle of state expressed his satisfaction with the Bulgarian staff working on the Kozloduy NPP and creating nuclear vitality as a strategic department of the economic system, together with with Bulgarian applied sciences. The development of a brand new block of our nuclear energy plant opens up alternatives for hundreds of recent jobs and for added employment after its completion, the president additionally reminded. The development of recent nuclear services additionally provides a lift to training and science, as a result of cutting-edge applied sciences are used and contributes to the socio-economic growth of your complete area. On this regard, the pinnacle of state known as for the development of the brand new ones blocks within the “Kozloduy” NPP, as many actions as doable needs to be carried out by Bulgarian firms.
“All these processes will be profitable provided that we’ve got extra intensive cooperation with our overseas companions, alternate of expertise, know-how, information, in order that we’ve got excessive effectivity, with assured high quality and as a lot as doable lowering the nuclear threat and guaranteeing excessive security ranges,” Rumen Radev identified. On this regard, the president highlighted the strategy adopted by different European nations in nuclear vitality by way of the implementation of small modular reactors to attain vitality independence.
In response to the pinnacle of state, within the close to and medium time period, till the specified future of just about zero carbon emissions is reached, nuclear vitality stays irreplaceable and Bulgaria should proceed to develop it. On the identical time, the ambitions to attain local weather neutrality by 2050 coincide with the pattern for a pointy enhance within the demand for electrical vitality with the transition from fossil fuels to the electrification of all sectors of the economic system, transport, business, building, family. It additionally raises the query of the position, place, duties, features and perspective of nuclear energy and its potential to attain vitality steadiness.
The President recalled the European debates a number of years in the past on the inclusion of nuclear vitality within the EU taxonomy, when the intentions of a transition to a inexperienced economic system grew into an crucial for nations to desert base capacities. The pinnacle of state highlighted his positions, constantly defended on the conferences of the European Council in 2021, that our nation shouldn’t be pressured to surrender such primary vitality capacities earlier than there are developed, carried out, assimilated and accessible applied sciences for storing renewable vitality sources of vitality. In response to him, discovering options for the storage of vitality from renewable sources is the important thing to the transition to a inexperienced economic system, however the building of RES requires the supply of plenty of land, and in Bulgaria land is an especially worthwhile useful resource and underneath the Structure it’s clearly decided for what and methods to use it. Rumen Radev reminded that the Bulgarian parliament accepted the veto imposed by him on using fertile land for the development of RES, which as soon as once more emphasizes the significance of nuclear vitality.
“We can’t obtain the EU’s strategic autonomy with no sustainable, reasonably priced and predictable vitality worth,” Rumen Radev emphasised in his speech and highlighted the massive worth imbalances in some European nations every day, which have given up primary vitality capacities. The President additionally identified that the EU can’t compete with the opposite main strategic gamers in the long run, the place electrical energy and pure fuel are a number of instances cheaper and assure the steadiness of their economies as a result of they will predict months and years forward what the value will probably be of vitality. On the identical time, the EU goals to attain strategic autonomy with the development of RES capacities, the place 98% of the photo voltaic panels it imports come from a single nation – China.
“On account of the vitality and financial disaster, we’re starting to understand the onerous approach that, along with clear nature, the residing requirements of European residents, employment and competitiveness are additionally essential, and we can’t ignore one for the sake of the opposite,” mentioned Rumen Radev. The pinnacle of state highlighted the significance of the so-called nuclear alliance in Europe, during which France and Bulgaria took a number one position, and with the assist of eight different European nations, they succeeded in making certain that nuclear vitality stays within the EU taxonomy, and that investments in it are acknowledged as sustainable and inexperienced. The President additionally emphasised the significance of the declaration by 20 nations from 4 continents, signed in December in Dubai on the UN World Convention on Local weather Change, to triple the manufacturing of electrical energy from nuclear energy vegetation by 2050. At this time, there are round 440 nuclear reactors offering roughly 390 gigawatts (GW) of energy, whereas one other greater than 100 reactors are deliberate or underneath building. Between 2025-2040, nevertheless, many present capacities will attain the tip of their deliberate life cycle and should be closed and decommissioned.
“For the primary time, nuclear energy producers have come collectively internationally in Dubai to problem the prejudices surrounding nuclear energy, and that is the best success – to acknowledge the position of the peaceable atom for the way forward for the planet.” , mentioned President Rumen Radev. The pinnacle of state additionally emphasised that Bulgaria is proud to have half a century of expertise in secure, steady, dependable operation of nuclear energy, and that completely with its extremely certified personnel, whose professionalism and experience needs to be the premise of their future growth.