Bohunice - information within July 2004

In this leaflet results of exploitation of four units of the Bohunice V-1 and V-2 NPPs are presented. The electricity and heat production in July 2004 are reviewed. Within a July 2004 the electricity was produced: 285 GWh (block 1), 292 GWh (block 2), 0 GWh (block 3), 20 GWh (block 4), totally 597 GWh, and 6352 GWh within a January - July 2004. The heat production in July 2004 was 9 417 GJ, and within a January - July 2004 it was produced 941 403 GJ of heat. After enlargement of European Union (EU) by ten new member states on May 1, 2004 the number of nuclear units has been risen by 19 units. 136 nuclear units were in operation in 'old' European Union. The most of nuclear units have been brought by Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (6 operational units, each state); Hungary has brought four units, Lithuania two and Slovenia one nuclear unit. Remaining five countries - Poland, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia and Malta do not use nuclear energy for electricity production. Nuclear energetics is used in fourteen countries in enlarged European Union. France operates the largest number of nuclear units (59), which generated 77.67 per cent electricity of total French produced electricity in last year. However, France has lasted its dominant position in European Union since May, because two Lithuanian nuclear units generated 79.88 per cent of electricity in last year. In 2003 nuclear units reached 33.1 per cent of electricity generation within European Union. After enlargement of EU in 2004 this share should be raised to 34 per cent