No signs of any nuclear phase-out in Europe.... quite the opposite !
Jaro
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Radio Prague (Vysilani do zahranici CRo)
News MAY 3th, 2003
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Both Temelin units operate at 100 percent of capacity
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Both units of the Temelin nuclear power station have started operating
at 100 percent of capacity for the first time, supplying around 2,000 MW
of electricity to the grid. The plant has thus reached its maximum
output - seventeen years after its construction started.
Both units could produce about 48,000 MWH of electricity per day.
The decision on the construction of the nuclear power station was made in 1980 and
works began in February 1987. After 1989 the country reconsidered its
electricity consumption and in March 1993 the government decided to
complete the plant with only two units instead of four.
The construction of Temelin was accompanied by many problems, which
provoked a wave of protests in neighbouring Austria and Germany.
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NUCLEONICS WEEK - April 24, 2003
TEMELIN-2 BEGINS 18-MONTH RUN
TOWARD FULL COMMERCIAL LICENSE
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Protest organizers also criticized the media for not paying
attention to their actions.
-Ann MacLachlan, Paris
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http://www.cez.cz/eng/profi/journalist/article.asp?id=43108&cat=5330&ts=5ec49
May 2, 2003
The power of the Unit 1 reactor is stabilized at 75% for the performance of the prescribed physics tests at this power level. After the completion of the tests, the Unit will be during the next weekend brought to full (100%) power.
The Unit 2 is operated in accordance with the program of the trial operation. Auxiliary systems of the power plant are operating in compliance with the mode of the corresponding unit. In the course of yesterday, the so far greatest daily electricity production- 41 856 MWh - has been achieved by the concurrent operation of both Units.
Information on parameters of Unit 1 today on May 2, 2003 at 10:00 o'clock:
The Unit is in Mode 1 - power operation
The reactor power is 74 %
Turbine generator output - 727 MWe
The electricity production since beginning of the year: 680 304 MWh
Information on parameters of Unit 2 today on May 2, 2003 at 10:00 o'clock:
The Unit is in Mode 1 - power operation
The reactor power is 100 %
Turbine generator output - 1019 MWe
The electricity production since beginning of the year: 1 410 070 MWh