Environmental NGOs criticize Temelín EIA study

Four Czech environmental organizations criticized on Thursday the environmental impact assessment, or EIA, for the completion of the Temelín nuclear power plant. The study was put together by the plant’s owner, the Czech energy giant ČEZ, and submitted to the Environment Ministry. The environmentalists said the study was in breach of EU legislation, lacked a more complex evaluation of the planned two new nuclear blocks. The NGOs suggested it should be rejected by the ministry. A ČEZ spokesman said that the EIA was in full compliance with the law.

ČEZ is planning to build two new blocks at the Temelín power plant that should be finished by 2012. The French company Areva, the US firm Westinghouse and Russia’s Atomstroyexport for the multi-billion public contract that has been dubbed the tender of the century.

Author: Jan Richter