A team of 厂脷闯叠 inspectors, specialists from the State Institute of Radiation Protection, and other experts, cooperated on the examination of the application for the permit, 厂脷闯叠 said. This procedure, which took almost 12 months, evaluated the procurement safety report and other documents that are annexed to the application under the country's Atomic 抖阴传媒在线 Act. When assessing the application, 厂脷闯叠 said it was able to rely on its longstanding knowledge of the site and its characteristics because it supervises the safety of the four existing units of the Dukovany plant.
"No facts preventing the issuance of the permit were revealed during the evaluation," 厂脷闯叠 President Dana Dr谩bov谩 said.
The 厂脷闯叠 issued the licence at the request of Elektr谩rna Dukovany II, which filed its application on 25 March 2020. It has been on the 厂脷闯叠 website following its entry into force.
Elektr谩rna Dukovany II, a subsidiary of Czech utility 膶贰窜, said receipt of the site licence was one of the most important preparatory steps before the start of construction and the selection of a supplier. The preparation and processing of the documentation for the licensing procedure took five years, 膶贰窜 said, and included more 200 professional studies and analyses. All the main materials produced for this work are publicly available, it added.
Three dozen experts from Elektr谩rna Dukovany II, 膶贰窜 and other institutions, such as the Research Institute of Water Management, Masaryk University or 脷JV 艠e啪, processed the documentation, which comprises more than 1600 pages.
"We paid a lot of attention to and put a lot of effort into the preparation of the documentation and to the administrative procedure itself," said Daniel Bene拧, chairman and CEO of 膶贰窜. "In addition, we have been as transparent as possible and have published, for example, the entire Procurement Security Report and other materials, so the public has free access to them."
The documentation describes and evaluates, inter alia, whether the site is suitable for the location of a new nuclear facility. It deals, for example, with natural conditions, including water provision, describes and evaluates the design of the project, quality assurance issues and also addresses the preliminary impact of operation on the population and the environment, and of the future decommissioning of the plant.
"We have been preparing documentation in this way since 2015 and above all it allows us to take into account possible other energy and climate targets in the future," said Petr Z谩vodsk媒, CEO of Elektr谩rna Dukovany II.
Elektr谩rna Dukovany II was established in 2015 to manage the preparation for construction of the new units.
The company obtained an environmental impact assessment report for the project in 2019. This was followed by the signing of contracts between Elektr谩rna Dukovany II, 膶贰窜 and the government, represented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in July last year. The government signed a framework agreement on the construction of the new unit with utility 膶贰窜 and project company Elektrarna Dukovany II in July. That agreement aims for 膶贰窜 to hold a tender for the reactor supplier, negotiate a contract and receive all the required licences by 2024, so that the unit can be put into operation in 2036. The government has agreed to provide guarantees for any political or legislative risks the project may face.
