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Released March 16, 2017 | GALWAY, IRELAND
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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--The Czech Republic could start work on a new nuclear power plant by 2025, according to the country's prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka.
The government is supporting an amendment to the current Building Act that would accelerate the start of construction of a new reactor at the existing Dukovany plant by around three years. Speaking to reporters, Sobotka said: "If they could enforce this proposal, I think it will be possible to shorten the construction start by about three years. Construction could begin around 2025 and contracts could be completed by around 2022."
In 2015, Industrial Info reported that Sobotka's government had approved a long-debated national energy strategy that supports building at least two new nuclear reactors at its existing nuclear power plants, Temelin and Dukovany.
State-owned energy company CEZ AS (Prague) is working on adding Unit 5 to the Dukovany plant. Although CEZ is overseeing the project, external investors will be required to pay for it. This week, Russia's state-owned Rosatom Corporation (Moscow, Russia) offered its new VVER-1200/392M reactor, a third generation pressurised water reactor (PWR) unit with a net capacity of 1,114-megawatts (MW).
The head of a recent trade mission of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic, Sergei Stupar, said: "Russian Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is the only one in the world that has already started operation of a new Generation III+ reactor at the Novovoronezh NPP. We are talking about a very expensive project: It is assumed, for example, that investments in the construction of one unit at Dukovany NPP will be approximately 150 billion Czech crowns, that is, about $6 billion."
Industrial Info reported last week that the first VVER-1200 nuclear reactor had entered commercial operation in Russia at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant.
The Czech Republic has six nuclear power reactors, two at Temelin and four at Dukovany, supplying around one third of the country's electricity. CEZ runs both plant sites.
CEZ also wants to build two reactors at the Temelin plant, which has a capacity of 2,000-MW. However, the project has suffered numerous setbacks over the past decade. In 2014, CEZ cancelled an $8 billion tender for the two new nuclear reactors, when the government at the time refused to provide price guarantees or any form of "stability mechanism" for low-emission energy projects. The bidding race was led by Rosatom and Westinghouse (Monroeville, Pennsylvania), which is owned by Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo, Japan). For additional information, see April 15, 2014, article - Czech Nuclear Project Scrapped.
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The government is supporting an amendment to the current Building Act that would accelerate the start of construction of a new reactor at the existing Dukovany plant by around three years. Speaking to reporters, Sobotka said: "If they could enforce this proposal, I think it will be possible to shorten the construction start by about three years. Construction could begin around 2025 and contracts could be completed by around 2022."
In 2015, Industrial Info reported that Sobotka's government had approved a long-debated national energy strategy that supports building at least two new nuclear reactors at its existing nuclear power plants, Temelin and Dukovany.
State-owned energy company CEZ AS (Prague) is working on adding Unit 5 to the Dukovany plant. Although CEZ is overseeing the project, external investors will be required to pay for it. This week, Russia's state-owned Rosatom Corporation (Moscow, Russia) offered its new VVER-1200/392M reactor, a third generation pressurised water reactor (PWR) unit with a net capacity of 1,114-megawatts (MW).
The head of a recent trade mission of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic, Sergei Stupar, said: "Russian Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is the only one in the world that has already started operation of a new Generation III+ reactor at the Novovoronezh NPP. We are talking about a very expensive project: It is assumed, for example, that investments in the construction of one unit at Dukovany NPP will be approximately 150 billion Czech crowns, that is, about $6 billion."
Industrial Info reported last week that the first VVER-1200 nuclear reactor had entered commercial operation in Russia at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant.
The Czech Republic has six nuclear power reactors, two at Temelin and four at Dukovany, supplying around one third of the country's electricity. CEZ runs both plant sites.
CEZ also wants to build two reactors at the Temelin plant, which has a capacity of 2,000-MW. However, the project has suffered numerous setbacks over the past decade. In 2014, CEZ cancelled an $8 billion tender for the two new nuclear reactors, when the government at the time refused to provide price guarantees or any form of "stability mechanism" for low-emission energy projects. The bidding race was led by Rosatom and Westinghouse (Monroeville, Pennsylvania), which is owned by Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo, Japan). For additional information, see April 15, 2014, article - Czech Nuclear Project Scrapped.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, five offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Our European headquarters are located in Galway, Ireland. Follow IIR Europe on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn For more information on our European coverage send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.eu or visit us online at Industrial Info Europe.
