Re: More on Slovak nuclear plant

[EVGENY TASKAEV <etaskaev@worldnet.att.net>]

58% of electricity in Europe is generated by Nuclear Power plants and
Slovak Republic is not among the biggest contributors. If Austria wants
to fight against nuclear energy, let start with France, Russia, Belgium,
Sweden etc.

Chernobyl type reactor is RBMK. Graphite moderated, channel type

Evgeny Taskaev
Atlanta, GA
etaskaev@worldnet.att.net

Sandy Perle wrote:
> 
> More on the Slovak power plant, as found in a July 5, 1998 BBC
> News report
> 
>              A nuclear power plant in southern Slovakia has begun
>              supplying electricity despite concerns about safety and
>              environmental risks.
> 
>              Neighbouring Austria has been appealing to Slovakia not
>              to start production at the nuclear plant at Mochovce,
>              about 180km east of Vienna.
> 
>              But on Saturday afternoon Mochovce's first reactor was
>              connected to Slovakia's electricity grid. The Slovak Tasr
>              news agency reported that the reactor was initially
>              operating at 20% of its 440 megawatt capacity.
> 
>              The Soviet-designed power station has been upgraded
>              using western technology, with the intention of making it
>              safer. However, international experts who inspected it in
>              May expressed reservations about the safety of the new
>              features as well as of the original design.
> 
>              Such criticism has been rejected as politically motivated
>              by the Slovak energy utility responsible for running
>              Mochovce, which claims instead that the plant is a
>              successful example of east-west co-operation in nuclear
>              energy.
> 
>                                  The Slovakian Government
>                                  and some western experts
>                                  have said everything is being
>                                  done to bring the plant up to
>                                  western safety standards.
> 
>                                  Austria has long opposed the
>                                  opening of the power station,
>                                  which is situated about
>                                  120km from its border.
> 
>                                  When the first reactor was
>                                  switched on last month, the
>                                  Austrian Chancellor, Viktor
> 
>              Klima, described the decision as an unfriendly and
>              highly irresponsible act. He threatened to withdraw
>              Austria's ambassador.
> 
>              Austria also warned that bringing the station into
>              operation could damage Slovakia's hopes of joining the
>              European Union. But Slovakia insisted that the plant was
>              safe and was vital to meeting the country's energy
>              needs.
> 
>              Slovakia is being pressured by the EU to close its
>              ageing Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear power plant, but has
>              refused to do so until the Mochovce station is running at
>              maximum capacity.
> 
>              Reports from Slovakia say the second reactor at
>              Mochovce is to start producing electricity once the first
>              reactor reaches full capacity in a month.
> 
>              The Slovakian Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar has also
>              stated that his government intends to oversee the
>              implementation of a third and fourth reactor.
> 
>              Controversy has surrounded the power plant at
>              Mochovce from the moment construction began in the
>              early 1980s.
> 
>              Work was halted in the early 1990s when the project ran
>              into financial problems. A Franco-German plan to
>              complete it collapsed when the European Bank for
>              Reconstruction and Development withdrew in 1996.
> 
>              The plant was finally finished mainly by Czech and
>              Russian engineers, with limited French and German
>              involvement.
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