Funny that they apparently didn't bother to launch a hunger strike at some ski hill in the Austrian Alps instead -- a little over two years ago, more than 160 people died in the mountain railway fire disaster in Kaprun, Austria [on Saturday Nov. 11, 2000].
Jaro
Radio Prague (Vysilani do zahranici CRo)
News JANUARY 2th, 2003
Temelin increases capacity as Austrians launch hunger strike
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Austrian anti-nuclear protesters in the town of Friedstadt have launched a
hunger strike to protest the Czech Republic's controversial Temelin
nuclear power plant, at a time when technicians at the plant are busy
increasing capacity at the nuclear facility. Each of the plant's twin
units is expected to be operating at full capacity by April after years of
tests and delays, a spokesman for the CEZ power company has said; Unit 1
was idle in December to save fuel, while Unit 2 has been undergoing rotor
repairs. The dozen Austrian protesters taking part in the hunger strike
say it will last five days. Meanwhile, one organiser said an extended
hunger strike would begin in April unless the European Union and the Czech
Republic negotiate a new plan for Temelin as part of the EU enlargement
treaty. The protest is the first hunger strike in a long series of
anti-Temelin demonstrations on the Czech-Austrian border dating from the
summer of 2000. Austrian protestors believe the plant is unsafe because it
combines Soviet-era with more modern western technology.
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Prague fire fighters investigating cause of New Year's fire
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Prague fire fighters investigating a New Year's Eve blaze that struck
in a 13 story Prague apartment building, killing one, are speculating
the fire may have been caused by a faulty refrigerator connection. The
fire began in the apartment of an elderly woman who died, another nine
people were injured and about fifty had to be evacuated. Four
apartments were completely gutted, another forty were damaged by water
used to put out the blaze. Final estimates of the overall damages are
still not possible to tabulate - currently the figure stands at some 8 million crowns.
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