Westinghouse-made nuclear fuel assemblies were loaded Wednesday 29 May for the first time in the reactor core of Bulgaria’s Kozloduy-5 VVER-1000 pressurised water reactor unit, the US nuclear company said in a statement.
Westinghouse said the first loading took place at the Kozloduy site in northwest Bulgaria and was inaugurated by a ceremony attended by Bulgarian prime minister Dimitar Glavchev, energy minister Vladimir Malinov and the US ambassador Kenneth Merten.