A British delegation, led by H.E. Jonathan Allen, Ambassador of U.K. in Bulgaria, visited the site of Kozloduy NPP on 11 July 2013.
The visit started with an opening meeting between the nuclear power plant management and experts from the specialised departments of State Enterprise Radioactive Waste, involved in process of safe management and further decommissioning of the shutdown nuclear facilities.
The delegation included: Carole Sweeney, Director Advanced Manufacturing at UK Trade & Investment; Peter Handley, nuclear expert, nominated by the British National Nuclear Laboratory to work with UKTI on the Nuclear Energy project for Central and East Europe; Peter Hiller, Environment Business Manager, NNL; Wayne Diamond, EU Economic and Energy Advisor at British Embassy, and Sashka Evtimova, Senior Commercial Advisor at the British Embassy. In their statements they demonstrated their respect to the Bulgarian experience in operating nuclear facilities.
During the visit the group visited the control room of Unit 2 with observation shield to the reactor hall and the turbine hall of Units 1-4, where during the last few years takes place the process of dismantling the non-radioactive equipment pursuant to da licences SERAW received from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency for management of the 440 MW reactors as facilities for radioactive waste management. During the tour around the site the visitors expressed interest in the dismantling process in per cents, in the concept that will be applied during the decommissioning, in the measures applied in order to secure radiological safety. Their questions were answered by Plamen Petkov, Chief Engineer of SD Decommissioning, Momchil Kazakov, Head of Sector Operation at the SDD, and Bratan Bratanov, Head of Division Engineering Provision at SD RAW Management – Units 3-4.
