Greenpeace to challenge completion of Slovak nuclear reactors

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BRATISLAVA (AFP) — Environmental group Greenpeace will lodge a legal challenge to Slovak authorities' go ahead for the completion of two nuclear power stations in the country's west, a representative said Wednesday.

The organisation will complain to the supreme court against the go ahead for completion of Mochovce's third and fourth nuclear reactors without prior environmental impact assessments being carried out.

"We should lodge the complaint by the end of this week," local Greenpeace office energy campaigner Karel Polanecky said. "We believe the court will agree that an error was committed."

The Slovak Nuclear Regulatory Authority (UJD) has argued that a previous building permit dating from 1986 is sufficient for building work to continue.

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