The Bulgarian government hopes that new inspections will prompt the EU to agree that the units can operate safely until 2010-2012. A previous inspection by the IAEA found that the reactors were operating well within safety parameters.
Kozloduy inspections demand
Bulgaria will not comply with the European Union's request to close Kozloduy 3 and 4 in 2006 unless the EU sends inspectors to the plant in 2003, according to Bulgaria's EU integration minister Meglena Kuneva.
