Bulgaria Resumes East Europe’s Biggest Atomic Project in Decades

Bulgaria’s parliament gave the green light to resume construction of an abandoned nuclear plant that may become one of the biggest power projects in eastern Europe in decades.

Lawmakers voted 172 to 14, with 2 abstentions, to lift a six-year ban on a 2,000-megawatt plant at Belene on the Danube river, Speaker Tsveta Karayancheva told the assembly in Sofia Thursday. The motion lets the government start a tender for a strategic investor without state guarantees or preferential power purchase prices, according to the decision.