Približno tri godine kasnije, koaliciona vlada pod vodstvom lidera socijalista Sergeya Stanisheva sklopila je ugovor s ruskom državnom firmom Atomstroyexport za izgradnju dva reaktora od 1.000 megavata VVER, po cijeni od, kako se procjenjuje, skoro 4 milijarde eura.
About three years later, the coalition cabinet headed by the socialists' leader, Sergey Stanishev, contracted Russian state company Atomstroyexport to build the two 1,000-megawatt VVER reactors for an estimated price of nearly 4 billion euros.