December 28 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant Kozloduy said on Monday it met its output target of 15 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity for the current year on December 26.
The plant's two units of 1,000 MW each, will be running at 100% capacity by the end of the year, the plant said in a statement.
Kozloduy's gross electricity production rose by 7.7% to 15.765 million MWh in 2008. Its net electricity production totalled 14.742 million MWh last year, 15% above plan and higher than the 2007 output of 13.69 million MWh.
Nuclear power accounts for about a third of the country’s electricity production. The Kozloduy plant, on the Danube river, generated 35.2% of Bulgaria’s electricity output last year.
Kozloduy, once operating six units with a combined installed capacity of 3,760 MW, has remained with just two operating reactors of 1,000 MW each after the government closed down the plant's four 440-MW units to address nuclear safety concerns of the European Union prior to the country's accession to the bloc. Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007.
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