Planned reactor will support European country’s transition away from reliance on Russian-designed units
Bohunice, one of Slovakia’s two nuclear power stations, has two Russia-designed VVER-440 pressurised water reactor units. Courtesy EBRD.
US energy secretary Chris Wright and Slovak prime minister Robert Fico have signed an intergovernmental agreement to advance cooperation on Slovakia’s civil nuclear power programme, including the development of a US-supplied large-scale nuclear unit at the Bohunice nuclear power station.
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