After launching the fourth block of the nuclear power plant in Mochovce, Slovakia will have the largest share of electricity produced from the core in the world. Slovakia will be the last country in the world to need a new nuclear source. This was stated on Thursday at a press conference leader of Slovakia Igor Matovič. He also informed that For the construction of a new nuclear source, Westinghouse calls the round table of the opposition parties.
“Slovakia will be the very last country next year to build an atomic power plant to ensure some network stability,” Matovic said. “We have an excess of electricity, we export electricity. In other words, if Slovakia would build a new atom, then In that case, we would export all the electricity it would produce away”He said.
The new nuclear block according to Matovic will indebry Slovakia by another 50 billion euros, to which he included construction costs, expected overpricing, interest on loan and increasing risk surcharges for Slovakia. Given the expected cost of electricity production of EUR 120 per megawatt -hour will be new nuclear block every year to produce a loss.
Matovic stressed the need for a round table of the opposition on the topic. The invitation was to respond to the opposition Christian Democratic Movement, which, according to the movement, Slovakia expressed its willingness to come.
At the same time, the Movement Slovakia commented on the planned termination of the operation of the nuclear power plant in Jaslovské Bohunice in 2045, which could subsequently mean an increased need for nuclear energy. “Normally in the world, this is extended to 80 years of life of nuclear power plants. Let’s talk about it that it will not be 2045, but it will be 2065,” Underlined by Július Jakab from Slovakia. Matovic added that such an extension of the service life would cost a dramatic fraction to invest in a new nuclear power plant.
Last year, power plants in Slovakia produced about 30 Terawatt hours (TWH) of electricity. According to data from the publication of the Slovak Electricity Transmission System from 2023, it would be It had electricity consumption in Slovakia to 2040 to increased to 36.5 TWh to 48.7 TWh by individual electrification scenarios.
