Latest News

Filters

Filter by tags: Prague China Clear all tag filters

5 news articles found


Czech power utility CEZ has extended the deadline for submitting the final bids for construction of the new nuclear reactor at the Dukovany NPP by nearly a month at the request of one of the bidders, reported by CTK to be US Westinghouse. The other bidders are France’s EDF and Korea hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), all offering pressurised water reactor designs. Westinghouse is proposing its AP1000, KHNP its APR1400 design and EDF its EPR1200 (a smaller version of its standard EPR). Russia and China were excluded from the bidding in 2021.

Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsez-extends-deadline-for-final-bids-for-new-nuclear-unit-at-dukovany-11163261

Prague wants to build new nuclear plants to replace polluting coal facilities The tender for new units at the Dukovany site (pictured) could include the option of new reactors at Temelín. Courtesy ČEZ. The tender for new reactors at the Dukovany plant in the Czech Republic will include a non-binding option for more units at the Temelín plant, the Czech minister of trade and industry, Karel Havlicek, said in an interview with the Právo newspaper.

Mr Havlicek said the government could issue a tender to build another reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power station after the mid-October elections.

He added that if his populist ANO party wins the election “We will also start preparing for Temelín” He said including the possibility of new units at Temelín in the tender Is “a greater motivation for suppliers, and thus we are pushing even harder on the price”.

Czech state power company ČEZ has said it is planning to build one Generation III+ reactor at the Dukovany site, with a maximum installed capacity of 1,200 MW. However, the company filed for permission to build up to two new units. In 2014, ČEZ cancelled the tender for construction of two new Temelín units after it failed to get state guarantees for the project.

Date: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/dukovany-tender-could-include-option-for-more-temelin-reactors-10-1-2021

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told reporters in Prague yesterday that the government will provide a loan to ČEZ to cover 70% of the cost of building a new unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant, with the majority state-owned utility funding the remaining 30%. The project cost is estimated to be about EUR6.0 billion (USD6.7 billion), ČEZ CEO Daniel Beneš told the ČTK news agency, following the press conference.

Date: Saturday, 30 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Czech-state-offers-to-pay-70-of-Dukovany-unit-s-co

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."

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.

Date: Thursday, 03 November 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsinternational-interest-in-czech-expansion-plans-5658017