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Trouble in the pipeline

Trouble in the pipeline
Konrad Kiedrzyński2008-09-17, ostatnia aktualizacja Business Journal 2008-09-18

Central and Eastern Europe faces huge challenges to supplying a cheap, clean and diversified supply of energy to its people………………………The Russian invasion of Georgiahas heightened fears that Russiacould use energy as a tool for political extortion against CEE countries. “Thishas already happened in Belarus, in Ukraine and it happened with Georgia afew years ago,” Nauduzas said…………………….

The development of [nuclear energy] is a distant prospect, however. Although Polandhas signed an agreement to participate in the construction of a 3,200-MWnuclear plant in Ignalina, Lithuania (to be completed between 2015 and 2018), it does not have a nuclearplant of its own.

“Even under the most favorable conditions,the process of creating a nuclear-energy plant lasts over 10 years,” Pawlaksaid. “Meanwhile, social prejudice against the development of nuclear technologies is huge.”

According to Martin Roman, president ofCzech energy giant CEZ, any plan to construct a nuclear power plant may becomeeven more difficult in the future

Trouble in the pipeline

Tags: nuclear, antinuclear, uranium, radiation

September 20, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics