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PRAGUE - The Czech Republic should start considering the construction of a third nuclear power plant to help overcome dwindling coal resources over the next 10 to 20 years, Industry and Trade Minister Jiri Rusnok said in remarks published yesterday.
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The business daily Hospodarske Noviny quoted him as saying the Czechs could build up to three, 600 megawatt blocks at a nuclear power plant to enable the small country to avoid having to import energy. Rusnok's comments reopen a sensitive issue in the region as the Czechs have been strongly criticised for their nuclear orientation by neighbouring Austria and Germany. "We should prefer domestic energy resources, and I would add nuclear power into it," Rusnok said. He added he expects a decision on how to sell the country's dominant power house CEZ in 2004 at the earliest - in line with previous government statements - while the state should keep a stake in the coal mine sector until CEZ is sold. He said CEZ could be sold gradually in small parcels, possibly on public markets.
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