The Czech Lidove noviny newspaper reports that Skoda Praha, the general contractor of CEZ’s Temelin nuclear power plant, and CEZ have agreed on a settlement of their dispute regarding a penalty payment of CZK 600 mil. related to the two-month delay of the activation of plant’s first reactor in 2001. Few other details were reported. Temelin’s second reactor is scheduled to be running at 100% capacity in January 2003.
Jan Hajek