BRATISLAVA, September 27, (WEBNOVINY) — A new nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice will not be built any time soon. Slovak Economy Minister Tomas Malatinsky told an international conference SES 2012 on Thursday that Slovakia can only count with a new nuclear facility in thirteen years. “Even if all nuclear energy experts launched works today on the construction of a new nuclear power plant. it might perhaps be completed in 2025,“ he stated.
According to original plans, the new nuclear power station was to be built on the site of the currently decommissioned reactors of the V1 nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice by 2020 while the preparatory phase was to close in 2014 when the construction itself was to commence. Real dates however should become known only after the feasibility study is prepared. The company Jadrova Enegeticka Spolocnost Slovenska (JESS) that is charged with the project of a new nuclear facility is intensively working on the study that is to be completed shortly. The feasibility study should definitively answer the question on whether the project is realistic at all.
The project of a new nuclear source should use a pressurized water reactor while one or two reactors with installed capacity of from 1,000 to 1,700 megawatts are under consideration with the project life span of sixty years. The final decision on the size and type of the new nuclear source will be defined based on the conclusions of the feasibility study. The study also examines the conditions of the locality, evaluates suitability of accessible technologies, names risks and propose measures for eliminating them. The study will describe the organization of the project, its commercial coverage, propose a supplier system and specify the financial and economic factors. Moreover, it will calculate construction costs. The feasibility study is currently prepared in collaboration with the Czech nuclear research institute Ustav Jaderneho Vyskumu Rez.
Original estimates of the costs of a new nuclear power stations oscillated from EUR 4 billion to EUR 6 billion. No public sources are to be put in the project that should be financed exclusive from external resources.
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