Slovakia is in nuclear safety in the top ten
Week in Slovakia
Monday – 9th January 2012
Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic Juraj Miškov can imagine the doprivatization of the company Slovenské elektrárne, Slovenský plynárenský priemysel or the largest suppliers of electricity Západoslovenská energetika, Stredoslovenská energetika and Východoslovenská energetika. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
The company Východoslovenská energetika invested 50 million euro last year. More than 80% of the money investeed the company in revitalization, modernization and expansion of the electric power distribution. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
Tuesday – 10th January 2012
According to Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic Juraj Miškov the expansion of solar and wind power had to fulfil two conditions. The first requirement is that the price of electricity produced by solar or wind power plants should be as close as possible to market prices. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
According to Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic, Construction and Transport Stanislav Janiš (SDKÚ) the preparation of he construction new nuclear power plant in Jaslovské Bohunice continued as in the undisclosed process. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
The chief of the political party SMER-SD Robert Fico does not agree with current government policy. He is for the strict regulation in the enterprises where the state has a majority. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
Thursday – 12th Januray 2012
American nonprogit organisation Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) has published the first global ranking of countries according to established security protection of nuclear material. The list of all 176 countries includes the results for countries with weapons-usable nuclear materials and countries without. Slovakia is at he 9th place and belongs to the top ten. Czech Republic is on the 3rd place. (more information – automatic translation via Google Translate)
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