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The EU’s Nuclear Showdown Comes to a Head in Czechia, World Politics Review, Tim Gosling Friday, April 30, 2021 A fight over nuclear power is heating up in the European Union. While the Czech Republic and other Central and Eastern European states insist that the technology is vital to their transition from coal-generated energy, others in the bloc want to cut it out of the equation. The outcome of the debate could also help determine the fate of a stalled tender to build a new reactor at Dukovany, one of the country’s two existing nuclear power plants. [Nuclear] Hopes in Prague were ...

Will the EU become climate-neutral? His government now hopes to add the first of up to four new units at Dukovany, one of the country's two nuclear plants, at an estimated cost of CZK160 billion (€6.2 billion, $7.39 billion). The selection of a contractor is viewed by many as the Czech Republic's biggest geopolitical test since the fall of communism. Suitors to build the reactor include companies from the United States, France and South Korea. However, Russia's Rosatom and China are also keen. Babis's government has thrown these opponents a bone by ousting China, but it is weak and depends ...