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Today, at noon, the MAAE expert team will complete its one-week follow-up OSART review mission in Temelin power plant. The team, made of five international experts, has been evaluating the extent to which the plant had incorporated the recommendations ensuing from the previous OSART mission, carried out in February 2001. John Cook (USA), the leader of the expert team, said that the plant management had been very attentive towards the recommendations and suggestions of the previous OSART mission held in February 2001. "The management of Temelin power plant went carefully through the recommendations and suggestions from 2001 and devised a number of programmes aimed at solving the indicated problems. The adopted measures are satisfactorily dealing with all the issues earmarked by the last review, which shows the responsible attitude of the Temelin staff, who are doing their best to ensure safe operation of the power plant," said the leader of the expert team.

Today, the CEZ Power Company officially submitted its Letter of Intent to the Slovak State Property Fund, thus expressing interest in partaking in the privatisation of the power utility Slovenské elektrarne (SE). CEZ communicated the fact that it is interested in all the company segments, including its nuclear facilities.

The combined installed capacity of all small hydroelectric power plants operated by the CEZ Group amounts to 59.7 MW (0.5 % of the total installed capacity of the CEZ Group). This means that the CEZ Group is the largest producer of electricity generated by small hydropower plants in the Czech Republic.

The profit of the CEZ Group has more than doubled