Projekat izgradnje druge nuklearne elektrane na bugarskoj strani rijeke Dunava, 100 km istočno od već postojeće u Kozloduju, pokrenuo je bivši komunistički režim zemlje par godina prije svog pada krajem 1989. godine.
The project to build a second nuclear power plant on the Bulgarian side of the Danube River, 100km to the east of the existing one at Kozloduy, was launched by the country's former communist regime a few years before its fall in late 1989.