Serbia to Remove Moratorium on Construction of Nuclear Power Plants

The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has said that the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants will be removed.

He said on TV Prva that, in 2050, the consumers in Serbia would spend four times more electrical energy than at that moment.

– It would be the best to build a classic nuclear power plant, but we don’t have EUR 20 billion. The Hungarians are building a nuclear power plant of EUR 11-12 billion with Rosatom. It takes ten years to build it – said Vucic.

He said that there was no difference in the danger from a nuclear power plant if it was in Serbia, as there would be one in Hungary, and there was also one Bulgaria.

– We are barely managing to prevent people from having problems with electricity, because the needs of the consumers are growing when it comes electrical energy, gas and oil – Vucic said.

He added that additional gas storage sites needed to be secured and that he would beg the Russians not to procrastinate with giving the option of having them built in Cestereg or Itebej., where Serbia already has gas supply.

He said that the oil pipeline toward Hungary needed to be built in 2024, but that bigger fuel storage sites were also being built and that he had given the order to the army to add 50% to their 100%.

He pointed out that the American company UGTR would install solar panels, with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, in six locations in Serbia, but that that production was possible only at 35 degrees, but not in winter.

– We will build the hydro power plant Bistrica, which will be completed in seven years, and the thermal power plant Kostolac B3 is being completed, so that we would at least have backup capacities at the thermal power plant. However, we mustn’t rely on coal, because a fee will be paid in Europe for the electricity produced in thermal power plants – said Vucic.

He also said that, up till March 20, Serbia had had one billion and 172 million euros of foreign direct investments, “which is an absolute record for our country.”

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