Atomic Power in the CMEA Countries

Abstract

The role of atomic power in the power supply to individual countries and regions, including the CMEA countries, will increase. Water-moderated power reactors having improved reliability and safety will spread in the CMEA countries, and nuclear power will be used for the purposes of centralized heat supply. At present the share of atomic power plants (APP) in the total volume of the energy production in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia exceeds 25 per cent, and in Hungary it approaches 40 per cent. Atomic power in the CMEA countries develops on the basis of mutual cooperation. In 1986 they adopted a new joint programme of building atomic power plants and atomic heat plants for the period up to the year 2000. One of the important ways of implementing that programme is to expand cooperation in the acceleration of scientific and technological progress. Nevertheless, so far no effective mechanism for mutual cooperation, making it possible to combine efforts for a fruitful solution of the problems of scientific and technological progress, has been created in the CMEA countries.