The report is scheduled to be completed in September, at about the same time when a commission headed by Vaclav Paces, head of the Czech Academy of Sciences, will publish the results of analyses of the Czech energy concept. Its preliminary recommendations say that the Czech Republic cannot make do without the development of nuclear energy, also due to its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. "The existing nuclear power plants Temelin and Dukovany are constant for us, we do not reckon with any new ones," Bursik said. Bursik stressed that the EU left the sensitive issue of nuclear energy aside in the discussion on the prepared energy and climate package.
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Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ... to accept nuclear energy, he added. Stress on consumption, not on production should be the basis of the new Czech strategy, Bursik said. The Environment Ministry has proposed that energy be saved in buildings, industry and through more efficient use of existing sources. Czechs should also focus on pollution from public transportation, Bursik said. There is a variety of measures and the Ministry wants to show the potential lowering of pollution in the Czech Republic, he added. The two nuclear plants account for about 30 percent of national energy needs in the Czech Republic.
(Ceske Noviny)
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