Czech Republic commits itself to nuclear energy in the long term

The Czech government's new strategy paper contains a long-term commitment to expand nuclear energy. The German-language weekly Prager Zeitung comments: "Nuclear-free Austria can get as upset as it likes [Austria has been complaining for years about the allegedly poor condition of Czech nuclear power stations, which it says pose a danger for Austria]: in the Czech Republic - and incidentally just as much in neighbouring Slovakia - nuclear energy is a prospect for the future and not a thing of the past. ... In the Czech Republic people are much more relaxed about nuclear power. With the exception of the Greens, whose return to parliament looks pretty unlikely, all the main parties favour an expansion of nuclear energy. ... The Czech population does not have much awareness of the risks of nuclear energy either. Whether this will change in the short term, given the economic crisis and global energy insecurity, is more than doubtful."

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