On 8 June 2012, the State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) celebrated its 8-th anniversary of its official court registration. In 2008 it was accepted this date to be celebrated as official holiday of the company.
This year the event started earlier than usually – at 8.30 AM a group of about 50 enthusiastic people started a march from Units 1 and 2 of Kozloduy NPP to the centre of the town. On its way they were joined by other workers from the areas of Radina site and Energy Production-2, on which territory SERAW-Kozloduy is located.
At 10.30 AM SERAW workers gathered in the auditorium of the House of culture where they were shown the recently created film for the company. Mr Dilyan Petrov, Executive Director addressed the audience. In his address, he made a brief retrospective of the most important events in the eight-year history of the company. He emphasized on the fact that SERAW was becoming widely recognised and trusted both by the Bulgarian state and the international institutions. He informed the audience about agreements achieved with KIDSF which will contribute to the decommissioning activities on the shutdown units of Kozloduy NPP. Mr Petrov also underlined that in order to manage successfully the increasing responsibilities of the company they would rely on the personal expertise, conscience and contribution of every one of the 550 specialists who worked at SERAW.
The agenda of the celebration continued with picnic in Botev Park where there was a concert of folk group Zlatia, a lot of sport games and competitions, stage for talents where employees the members of their families could perform, children parade. Visitors from SERAW-Novi Han and the headquarters in Sofia joined the celebration in Kozloduy, hosted by the employees of the two special SERAW divisions there.
