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Fico: Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant Will Be Among World's Safest
Tuesday 25 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 25 (TASR) - Nuclear energy is gaining in importance, therefore Slovakia adopted several measures to increase the output of the existing nuclear blocks in Slovakia and to support construction of additional resources of nuclear energy, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said at the fifth European Nuclear Energy Forum in Bratislava on Tuesday.
"In nuclear energy we see a prospective alternative and a positive signal for global energy security," he stressed.
According to Fico, Slovakia has all prerequisites needed to use nuclear energy as a safe, environmentally acceptable and economically advantageous resource for production of electricity.
At the time of the economic crisis, it is necessary to do everything possible to lower the vulnerability of economies. "Therefore we view construction of nuclear power plants as a new impetus. I'm convinced that these huge investments have also contributed to the fact that Slovakia is about to have the highest economic growth within the entire EU in 2010 and 2011, according to the European Commission," said Fico.
The construction of the third and fourth block of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Nitra region, which should be one of the world's safest power plants, is expected to be completed in 2012 or 2013, said Fico.
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