Talking Point The Czech Republic’s Nuclear Energy Dilemma
Today, energy from nuclear power plants provides for roughly a third of the Czech Republic’s overall electricity consumption. There are in fact six operating nuclear power plant units – four of them have been operating for twenty years in Dukovany, and two of them have been operating for almost ten years in Temelín, in south Bohemia. The rest of the Czech Republic’s energy needs are met by domestic coal as well as imported gas. But the country has recently begun to wrestle with how it will meet its energy needs in the future, and more nuclear power seems to be topping the list of options. Yet, nuclear power remains an understandably controversial choice – with both domestic opponents as well as the country’s vocal non-nuclear neighbour Austria wanting to steer the country clear of this option.
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