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The head of the Czech State Office for Nuclear Safety, Dana Drábová, warned on 23 February about European Union (EU) pressure to close the Dukovany nuclear plant. "There is immense pressure developing that the operating life of nuclear reactors should be limited to 40 years. That means our political representatives – whoever they might be – sometime around 2023 will face a battle over a further ten-year extension for Dukovany."
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 26 February 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsczech-republic-under-european-pressure-over-dukovany-6065809
Six companies have expressed interest in the expansion of the Czech Republic’s nuclear power programme, according to media reports on 2 November. These include Russia’s Rusatom Overseas (part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom); US-based Westinghouse (part of Japan’s Toshiba Corp); Electricite de France; ATMEA, the joint venture of France’s Areva and Japan’s Mitsubishi; Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, and China General Nuclear Power Corporation.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 03 November 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinternational-interest-in-czech-expansion-plans-5658017