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Elektrárna Dukovany II, a ČEZ subsidiary, applied for a zoning permit today for a new nuclear source at the Dukovany site. This is the beginning of another important stage in the preparation of the construction project, but these are also administrative proceedings that have no direct connection to contractor selection. The preparation of background materials and documents took more than two years and involved approximately seventy experts.

At the weekend, Unit 1 of Temelín NPP started to produce electricity again. Due to planned refueling, the operators shut Unit 1 down on March 26. The outage lasted for 56.5 days and took place in a strict covid regime. The technicians have daily tested on average five hundred workers during the outage. Together with the Dukovany power plant, all six nuclear units are currently in operation.

The construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic will be more environmentally friendly, as EUROVIA CS Group newly becomes a user of environmentally friendly power from emissions-free sources. The representative of both companies signed a joined declaration. With the consumption of each 1 MWh of emissions-free power, the country saves 0.6 tonnes of CO2 as compared to traditional electricity from the usual electricity mix, which – given EUROVIA CS’ average annual consumption – amounts to 19,600 tonnes of CO2. EUROVIA CS Group will purchase emissions-free electricity from 1 January 2022 through to 31 December 2023, from ČEZ ESCO, a ČEZ subsidiary.

Nearly fourteen thousand activities including refueling are waiting for the power plant technicians during the planned outage of the Temelín Unit 1. The outage will start this evening and take place in a tightened-up “Covid Mode”. In practice, this can mean up to one thousand Covid tests to be performed a day. The technicians had planned two months of work in the outage.