Radio Prague (Vysilani do zahranici CRo)
News MAY 22nd, 2003
Urban: Temelin nuclear plant may be expanded
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Trade and Industry Minister Milan Urban said on Thursday that the Czech
Republic might expand its Temelin nuclear power plant even though its
has yet to bring the station's first two reactors fully online after
years of breakdowns and problems. The owner of Temelin and the
country's main power producer, the state-controlled company CEZ, is to
make a decision on new power sources next year. On Thursday the daily
Mlada Fronta Dnes quoted Trade and Industry Minister Milan Urban as
saying the expansion of nuclear power is one option to replace at least
60 percent of the four-gigawatt capacity at obsolete coal-burning power
plants over the next fifteen years. The south Bohemian nuclear plant
has raised many protests in neighbouring Austria because of its
combination of Soviet design and Western control systems. The Czechs
government says the plant is safe.
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