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submitted binding bids for a fifth unit at Dukovany. In February 2024, the Czech government changed the tender to binding offers for four new units, excluding Westinghouse. In July, KHNP was selected, and contract negotiations began with an objective of first commercial operation in 2038. However in
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and was to have two or four VVER-1000 reactors, producing 1000 MWe each and also providing heating for the Hradec Králové-Pardubice agglomeration, and for Prague (using a 67 km long steam pipeline). Construction was to begin in 1996 and the reactors to be activated between 2004–2008. The
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reactor design. One plant was built again in Jaslovské Bohunice, the other in Dukovany (southern Moravia), both equipped with four reactors VVER-440 v. 213 producing 440 MWe each. The first new reactor in Jaslovské Bohunice was activated in 1978, the remaining 7 during the 1980s.
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for about 2035 to replace four units expected to shut down between 2035 and 2037. The financial model proposed is a state guarantee so finance can be obtained at government interest rates, but no subsidy on operating costs or above market-price electricity rates.
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in the future. Geological exploration started during the second half of the 1990s. Eleven candidate locations have been selected but the process is not finished as of 2006. The possibility of storing waste on the Temelín station site is being considered.
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only 50 km from the Czech–Austrian border. Austria had threatened the Czech Republic with difficulties in joining the EU if the plant was commissioned. Other opponents to this power plant claimed that it had the same design as the
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Those living near nuclear waste storage facilities argue that proposals for expansion of nuclear power block development of such areas, discourage investment and make the areas unattractive for tourists. Several villages organized
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mined in Czechoslovakia. The KS 150 was designed in the Soviet Union and built in Czechoslovakia. Construction was burdened by many problems and took an unexpectedly lengthy 16 years. In 1972 the plant was activated. In 1977 an
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In 2008, a poll found that 64 % of Czechs agree with the use of nuclear power, the highest level of support of the 27 EU countries surveyed, alongside
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in 1989. In 2005 a recommendation by the Ministry of Industry suggested adding two 600 MWe reactors there before the year 2025. In August 2009,
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At the end of the 1970s a decision was made to build two more power stations: Temelín (southern Bohemia, 4 × VVER-1000, 1000 MWe) and
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against planned waste storage and regional governments have tried to put up legal and administrative obstacles to new stations.
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The simplest expansion of nuclear capacity would be completion of the two units at Temelín, which were cancelled after the
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August, the Czech competition authority stated that Westinghouse and EDF had asked for a review of the tender process.
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Nuclear waste produced by the power stations and the other smaller reactors in the country is exported to
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stopped energy production and since 1979 the reactor has been partly dismantled, but not decommissioned.
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In 2019, the Czech government gave preliminary approval for at least one new nuclear power unit at
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was chosen. One plan suggested building a nuclear heating plant in Opatovice nad Labem instead.
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Most Czechs support further expansion of nuclear power use, with support at 60 % in 2007.
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after 2020. The plans announced in 2006 envisaged construction of one 1,500 MWe unit at
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An IBRS survey found that support for nuclear energy has risen to 65 % in 2021.
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were investigated and selected for new stations during the 1980s: the village of
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Energy Policy of 2004 envisaged building two or more large reactors to replace
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In 1956 a decision was made to build the first nuclear power station in
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The Czech Republic and Austria have had disagreements concerning the
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The Czech Republic has no state policy on storage or reprocessing of
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AN EXPERIENCE ON DRY NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
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R&D OF PYROCHEMICAL PARTITIONING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
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was developed at the Řež nuclear research institute at
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