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Croatian government is looking to build a nuclear power plant (glashrvatske.hrt.hr)

submitted 1 month ago by pan0wski to c/balkanika@feddit.bg

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Parliament will likely adopt by the end of the year draft legislation for the construction of a nuclear power plant, economy minister Ante Šušnjar said.

The ministry of economy has set up a working group drafting the nuclear energy law, Šušnjar said late on Thursday evening.

For more than 40 years, Croatia has been the co-owner of the Krško nuclear power plant in neighbouring Slovenia, which supplies about 16% of the country’s energy needs.

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[–] mapto@feddit.bg 3 points 1 month ago

The thing is that new nuclear installations are so prohibitively expensive that they are close to impossible in a democratic country.

[–] mapto@feddit.bg 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...and then they become a big problem when you have moments of energy overproduction by renewables and spot market prices zero out. Then you'd wish to stop producing at a loss, but that's impossible. Bulgaria's strategy is to combine nuclear with pumped hydro. However, when you have reached a pumped hydro capacity that could do weekly balancing (the current strategic objective in Bulgaria), you don't really need nuclear anymore.