According to Karol Galek, creation of the state energy holding company in which companies operating on the free market would merge with the regulated ones would only cover up the real situation.
The Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (NKU) states that no stances, respectively recommendations of the state representatives that would prove some reservations about the failures in the completion of nuclear units in Mochoce were found.
The Economic and Social Analyses Institute (INESS) states that although the two rounds of privatisation in Slovakia were accompanied by scandals and fraud, Slovakia’s economy is now in a better condition than it would be without them.
The power producer Slovenske Elektrarne will be allowed to start loading nuclear fuel into the third Mochovce nuclear unit at the end of April 2021 at the latest. This will take place only once all the permissions without any objections and challenges of the participants of the proceeding are granted. Nuclear fuel loading will be postponed to July-August 20201 in case of some appeals.
Economy Minister Richard Sulik confirmed that he had received several information in connection with the completion of the Mochovce NPP from the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS). However, the safety of the nuclear units in Mochovce was not the problem.
The team of IAEA experts identified eleven fields of good practice and 22 shortcomings in their report published by the Slovak dominant electricity producer Slovenske Elektrarne.
The Mochovce nuclear unit generates 7 percent more electricity without increasing the reactor’s output, thanks to improved efficiency of the non-nuclear part of the power plant. The electric output of the second Mochovce unit rose from 470 to more than 500 MW.
Five years will have passed in January 2021 since the government led by Robert Fico “in(voluntarily)” took over the operation of the Gabcikovo hydropower plant from the power utility Slovenske Elektrarne and handed it over to the state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic wants to establish a nuclear alliance that will protect countries using nuclear energy from being called polluters. Matovic believes that France is our closest ally.
According to Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic, nuclear energy cannot be regarded as “dirty” as fossil fuels. All previous prime ministers of independent Slovakia had been advocating the development of nuclear energy.
The purchase price for a 49-percent stake in the company Vychodoslovenska Energetika Holding was between 700 and 800 million euros. The return on this price would be 24 years. The state received 35.2 million euros for waiving its pre-emptive right.
The NAKA raid in Mochovce concerns the supply of fire alarm systems, components, devices and work necessary for the operation of the power plant. According to the recent findings, the price was allegedly raised gradually from 3.9 million euros to almost 25 million euros.
The Nuclear Supervision Authority (UJD) expects the investor to specify the schedule for the completion of the Mochovce nuclear unit 4 as soon as the nuclear unit 3 is commissioned. The assembly of the machinery and cleaning processes are being performed at the nuclear unit 4 in Mochovce.
According to the Slovak police, the two Italian managers P. R. and N. C. were allegedly involved in millions-worth fraud. They allegedly caused the damage of 22 million euros to the Slovak dominant electricity producer.
The Finance Ministry of the Slovak Republic promises to carry out a selection procedure in order to select members of Board of Directors in Slovenska Elektrizacna Prenosova Sustava (SEPS).