The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Bulgaria situated 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Sofia and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Kozloduy, a town on the Danube river, near the border with Romania. It is the country's only nuclear power plant and the largest in the region. The construction of the first reactor began on 6 April 1970.
Kozloduy NPP currently manages 2 pressurized water reactors with a total output of 2000 MWe. Units 5 and 6, constructed in 1987 and 1991 respectively, are VVER-1000 reactors. By 2014 they will be upgraded to reach a capacity of 1,100 MWe each. A seventh 1,000 MW unit will be installed, using an assembled reactor from the terminated Belene NPP project.
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