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Calla – Association for Environmental Protection held a webinar “Will the first modular reactors be built in the middle of Europe?” on Wednesday, March 25, 2026,. The webinar was held in Czech and German language. The recording will be published here soon. The webinar was primarily intended for non-governmental organizations, but also for active individuals…
The Energiaklub Climate Policy Institute has requested the Registry Court of the Szekszárd Regional Court to conduct a legality supervision procedure concerning the nearly HUF 80 billion capital increase of Paks II Nuclear Power Plant Private Limited Company, registered in December 2025. In Energiaklub’s view, the capital increase may violate EU law as it may…
Dukovany NPP tender’s fallout on the World Nuclear Market: South Korea entering European Market was stopped. Westinghouse to win it all? Is EDF still out there? By Patricia Lorenz and Edvard Sequens We are in the midst of what the Friends of the Atom call Nuclear Comeback. Let’s take a look at what is really…
Updated study: “Perspectives of Small Modular Reactors in the Czech Republic” – Update 2024 now available in English. The study was first presented in October 2023 by the author Stephen Thomas, Emeritus Professor at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has examined seven SMR technologies under development, from which the Czech energy company CEZ is…
In December 2024, an Environmental Impact Assessment for a first so-called Small Modular Reactor (SMR) at the Temelín site was conducted. Calla submitted a statement in the scoping procedure. For further questions please contact:Edvard SequensCalla – Sdružení pro záchranu prostředíe-mail: edvard.sequens@calla.czweb: http://www.calla.czTwitter: Edvard_Sequens
Watch our new video! What’s the deal with the return of nuclear power? Experts from countries with new nuclear projects explain how taxpayers are expected to shoulder the enormous costs of new reactors for decades. But who’s really behind this comeback? Poorly advised governments and the geopolitical interests of the U.S. company Westinghouse, which has…
This Joint Project Webinar took place on September 13, 2024, 2-4 PM CEST. The current hype around nuclear power plant is loud, however, silent when it comes to the issue of finance. The major barrier to new nuclear power investment is the difficulty of finding finance: It is still far too risky with huge cost…
The tendering process for construction of new nuclear reactors has become a major topic of Czech public debate in the recent months. It is no wonder, as it concerns hundreds of billions of crowns and the parties are aware that the big project might fail. After all, the companies that participate in the tender have…
The Joint Project organized this workshop on 18 June 2024 in Prague. The nuclear revival as it is termed by the nuclear lobby is strongly felt in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). A close look however makes clear that this high number of planned nuclear power plants is to be built by three reactor manufacturers…
One of the key topics of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Prague will be efforts to support French state-owned EDF, which is bidding to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. But there is the failure to build new nuclear power plants on time and at the agreed price, not only abroad but…