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Safety system checks, six dozens of investment projects, replacement of a part of fuel assemblies, or replacement of an electricity generation part. These are just examples of the most important works during the Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 planned outage. Overall, CEZ plans to conduct almost sixteen thousand planned activities for two months.

The American company Westinghouse and French company Framatome have won the tender to supply nuclear fuel assemblies for the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant. Deliveries will start in 2024 and continue for approximately 15 years. The contract is worth billions of crowns.

CEZ has set aside a special space at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant site where the first small modular reactor in the Czech Republic could be built in the future. CEZ has already informed the US companies NuScale and GE Hitachi to this effect this week and today informed representatives of the South Bohemian Region and representatives of another US company, Holtec International. CEZ has signed a cooperation agreement with these companies and also with other companies developing small modular reactors, in which many power engineers have high hopes for the future. The allocated space does not limit the potential construction of two more standard nuclear units.

Today, ČEZ, or its wholly-owned subsidiary Elektrárna Dukovany II, launched a tender for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Dukovany. The Ministry of Industry and Trade gave its approval for this step after the safety units assessed the documents from the previous phase, i.e. the incorporation of safety requirements into the tender documentation, and completed the safety assessment of all three bidders. These are Westinghouse from the USA, EdF from France, and the Korean company KHNP.