Czech govt will not build new N-plants -Bursik

...Martin Bursik said on Thursday.

"It (the deal) is worded in a way that the government will not support, nor plan the construction of new nuclear units," Bursik told reporters after the deal was signed on Thursday afternoon.

State-owned power utility CEZ runs two reactors with combined capacity of 2,000 megawatts at the Temelin nuclear plant which has caused friction with environmentalists in neighbouring Austria.

CEZ has been mulling an expansion of its nuclear generation capacity. Nuclear energy is re-emerging as the possible solution for growing energy needs at the time of high fossil fuel costs and the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

[PRAGUE/Reuters/Finance.cz]