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Wide of cooling towers with steam coming out 2. Mid of front of nuclear energy plant with sun shining through3. Close up of nuclear energy plant with sun shining4. Wide of cooling...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDukovany, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of cooling towers with steam coming out \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of front of nuclear energy plant with sun shining through\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of nuclear energy plant with sun shining\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of cooling towers\u003cbr/\u003ePrague, Czech Republic - 26 September 2011\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Tomas Huner, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Among the key advantages of nuclear energy is a power source without emissions. We are considering increasing electricity production in nuclear plants from some 30 percent to about 60 percent by 2050.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDukovany, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e6. Tilt up cooling facility at bottom of tower \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of water falling through support beams \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of water falling into cooling facility\u003cbr/\u003eVienna, Austria - 3 October 2011\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt down of Austrian environment ministry building \u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Austrian Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich at desk \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of hand turning page \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (German) Nikolaus Berlakovich, Austrian Environment Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For Austria this way is definitely the wrong one. It can't be that someone expands nuclear energy after Chernobyl, and especially after Fukushima. The public rightly says that we need to get away from nuclear energy. Austria is taking the path of renewable energy and that's the way to go for Europe as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDukovany, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide interior of nuclear power plant, man walks by on scaffolding \u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up of pipes in nuclear power plant \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide interior of nuclear power plant workers walk by \u003cbr/\u003e16. Top shot of light beams on floor with worker walking through\u003cbr/\u003eBrno, Czech Republic - 29 September 2011\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Martin Sedlak, Energy Expert for environmental group Rainbow Movement:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Such a heavy reliance on one source of energy could be problematic. The investment in nuclear energy is economically too demanding and unpredictable.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDukovany, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of nuclear power plant control room simulator with men running drill \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of man and control panel behind him \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of man, tilt down to computer screen\u003cbr/\u003eJesenik, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up of mail boxes in Jesenik, proposed site of one new nuclear facility \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of man riding bike down hill and up to mail boxes \u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of men walking \u003cbr/\u003e24. Close of man taking out mail and closing mail box \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Tomas Machycek, Mayor of Jesenik:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have to take life as it is and imagine that it (power plant) will be located here. I can imagine it but it's not the case that I would lose sleep over that now.\" \u003cbr/\u003eDukovany, Czech Republic - 27 September 2011 \u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of cooling towers \u003cbr/\u003e27. Pan from steam from cooling towers to sun and support beam \u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of nuclear facility from distance\u003cbr/\u003eSurrounded by corn fields, bicycle paths and a nature reserve, the eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany nuclear power plant have dominated the Czech countryside near the Austrian border for almost three decades.\u003cbr/\u003eThis nuclear plant, unlike others in Europe, is not under threat.\u003cbr/\u003eAmid global scepticism over the use of atomic energy, the Czech Republic is planning to dramatically increase the country's nuclear power production.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe move would give the country a place, together with France, among Europe's most nuclear-dependent nations.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Czechs argue that nuclear energy is needed because it is a clean and cost efficient energy source that would replace most of its ageing coal powered plants, while also taking advantage of the fact that the country is rich in uranium. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Among the key advantages of nuclear energy is a power source without emissions,\" said Tomas Huner, the Czech Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Czech Republic currently has six nuclear reactors - four 440-megawatt reactors in Dukovany and two 1,000-megawatt reactors at another plant in Temelin, located an hour's drive north of the Austrian border.\u003cbr/\u003eBetween them they provide 33 percent of their electricity needs, but the government hopes to at least double that output. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are considering increasing electricity production in nuclear plants from some 30 percent to about 60 percent by 2050,\" Huner says.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Czech plan reflects a sharp division over nuclear energy among European nations, and such opposing views could have a serious effect on relations between neighbouring nuclear and non-nuclear powered countries.\u003cbr/\u003eGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, following the March meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant, and Switzerland has followed suit. \u003cbr/\u003eAustria abandoned nuclear energy after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and strictly opposes the Czech nuclear programme, whose plants will lie not far from its border with the Czech Republic.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It can't be that someone expands nuclear energy after Chernobyl, and especially after Fukushima,\" said Nikolaus Berlakovich, Austrian Environment Minister. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Austria is taking the path of renewable energy and that's the way to go for Europe as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA trio of big players - US-based Westinghouse Electric Company, a subsidiary of Japan's Toshiba Corporation, France's state-owned nuclear engineering giant Areva SA, and a consortium led by Russia's Atomstroyexport - are already bidding to win a lucrative multibillion dollar tender to build two more reactors at the Temelin plant. \u003cbr/\u003eThe reactors are expected to be operational in the middle of the next decade.\u003cbr/\u003eEnvironmentalists oppose the Czech nuclear plans because of concerns over the safe disposal of nuclear waste and plant safety but also for economic reasons as well.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Such a heavy reliance on one source of energy could be problematic,\" says Martin Sedlak, a Czech environmentalist, and Energy Expert at the environmental group, Rainbow Movement.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The investment in nuclear energy is economically too demanding and unpredictable,\" Sedlak said.\u003cbr/\u003eCzech authorities insist both plants are safe and will have no problems passing so-called nuclear reactor stress tests currently being conducted across Europe after the Japanese disaster. \u003cbr/\u003eOpened a year before the Chernobyl disaster, Dukovany's life expectancy was some 30 years. \u003cbr/\u003eGermany is closing plants of the same age, but the Czechs refuse to do that, preferring to extensively overhaul the plant.\u003cbr/\u003eDukovany, the nation's biggest electricity source, last year underwent a 26 billion koruna (1.4 billion US dollars) overhaul aimed at increasing its output and improving control systems, as the plant gets ready to ask the nuclear authority for a licence extension of at least 10 more years, plant spokesman Petr Spilka said.\u003cbr/\u003eAt least one new 550-megawatt reactor is to be built at the Dukovany site and more places have been identified for new plants, Huner said.\u003cbr/\u003eHuner said a completely new 2,000-megawatt plant in the northeastern part of the country could be operational by 2060.\u003cbr/\u003eUnlike the Austrian and German publics, the Czechs support nuclear energy - though they may not be happy to have a plant in their backyard.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the proposed new nuclear sites is in Jesenik, in eastern Czech Republic, near the border with Poland. \u003cbr/\u003eMayor Tomas Machycek is vague on whether he knows for certain when the plant, which would be only a few kilometres (miles) away, will be built.\u003cbr/\u003eFinal announcements as to where and when the new plant 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