Business, jobs, education – construction of new nuclear units will give the Czech region around Dukovany a huge boost

Construction of new units at the Dukovany nuclear power plant will provide a huge boost not only to the national economy, but also to the region around the plant. It will bring local companies tens of billions of crowns’ worth of business, create thousands of jobs and offer wide-ranging educational opportunities. However, it is important to ensure that the money invested in the project does not simply flow through the region without creating lasting value. This was the consensus among participants at the conference “New Dukovany nuclear power plant units – opportunities and challenges for the Třebíč region”, organised in Třebíč by French company EDF, one of the bidders for the contract to build new nuclear reactors in Czechia.

As a company with extensive experience building nuclear power plants in Europe, EDF is fully aware that the Třebíč region will have to cope with a number of significant changes. At the event, it therefore presented the first preliminary findings of a socioeconomic study aimed at mapping these challenges and helping the region manage them as effectively as possible.