LJUBLJANA, May 30, (WEBNOVINY) — Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova said that Slovakia will not follow in Germany’s footsteps and will not decommission its nuclear power plants. Radicova finds energy security very important. Europe has two hundred nuclear blocks. Radicova stated that shutting down nuclear power in Slovakia would mean a shortfall of fifty percent of required electric energy. “We are ready for stress tests. Our nuclear power plants meet high security criteria,“ stressed Slovakia’s Prime Minister with regard to Germany’s decision to decommission all its nuclear power plants until 2022 adding that Slovakia will need its the energy mix also in the future. The Slovak prime minister said this at the press conference on Monday after her meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor.
Germany announced it would abandon nuclear power completely and all its nuclear power plants will go off-line until 2022, German Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen announced on Monday morning in Berlin after an unusually long session of the German Cabinet. Nuclear power currently secures 22 percent of Germany’s overall power supply.
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