Temelin gets go-ahead

摘要

On 12 May the Czech cabinet voted by 11 to 8 to continue and complete the two 1000 MWe units at the Temelin nuclear power plant. The first power from the station should be supplied in August 2000. Since its inception over 20 years ago the plant has been dogged by cost overruns and delays, the most significant of which was due to a decision made following the collapse of communism in 1989 to introduce Western safety standards. CEZ, the state power company and investor, brought in Westinghouse to overhaul the control and instrumentation system. As a result of the cost of the plant has risen to 100 billion crowns (about $3 billion).