GALWAY, IRELAND--November 29, 2013 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia are to benefit from €860 million ($1.16 billion) in funding from the European Union (E.U.) to help them decommission their old nuclear power plants.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted overwhelmingly to the funding for decommissioning of the Kozloduy, Ignalina and Bohunice nuclear power plants (NPPS) as part of the next E.U. budget period (2014-2020).