Nuclear Safety Account (NSA)
In 1993 the G7 countries proposed that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development establish a Nuclear Safety Account (NSA) to finance the concrete safety improvements of the oldest reactors of Soviet design. The objective of the NSA was to quickly improve the safety of VVER-440/230 and first generation RBMK reactors since the facilities in question cannot be closed down yet. Financing was granted to the safety improvement programmes concerning Bulgarian Kozloduy, Lithuanian Ignalina, and Russian Kola, Leningrad and Novovoronezh NPPs.
