This week Saudi Arabia’s KA CARE (King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy) confirmed plans to build the nation’s first fleet of 16 nuclear reactors by 2030.

Bulgaria must secure $5 billion to start building a nuclear power plant with two 1,000-megawatt reactors at Belene on the Danube River, an engineer said. Djurica Tankosic, an architect-engineer for WorleyParsons Ltd., which works on the Belene plant project, urged the Bulgarian government to find funds as soon as possible to avoid delays in construction, scheduled to begin this year, the Bulgarian Sofia news agency SNA said Wednesday. Tankosic singled out two sources the Bulgarian government could look at to obtain funding, a loan from Russia or an agreement with France's BNP Paribas Bank. Sofia had requested a loan from Moscow for the Belene facility as part of a pending deal on the South Stream natural gas pipeline.

Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap [Yonhap headline: "S Korea Opts Not To Bid for Turkish Nuclear Reactor Project" by Lee Joon-seung] SEOUL, Sept.

MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) - Atomstroyexport in consortium with Inter RAO UES and the Turkish partner Ciner Group has filed the only bid in a tender to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, Atomstroyexport spokesperson Irina Yesipova told Interfax.

Text of report in English by Turkish privately-owned, mass- circulation daily Hurriyet website on 24 September [OSC Transcribed Text] [Unattributed report: "Turkey launches first nuclear power plant tender to meet energy demand"] Turkey would hold a tender for the construction of its first nuclear power plant on Wednesday to reduce its dependence on foreign energy and to meet its increasing energy demand.