Triumvirs of atomic waste
Czechs to spend another EUR100 million on the Russo-German nuclear waste industry
Czech nuclear waste is stored in German casks made by a Russian state firm.
OMZ’s Skoda JS (owned by the Russian state-controlled Gazprom Bank) announced this week that it had been awarded yet another contract by CEZ to supply an additional 100 Castor 1000/19 spent nuclear fuel casks between 2018 and 2035. The value of the deal is around EUR100 million.
These casks are in fact manufactured under licence. The owner of the technology is the German firm GNS, Europe’s leading manufacturer of such containers. What percentage of the value of this latest deal between CEZ and Skoda JS goes into the pockets of the German licensor is unknown. In all cases, the contract marks the continuation of a long and profitable relationship between these triumvirs of nuclear waste.
Skoda JS has been making GNS casks for CEZ since 2001, when Skoda JS was still a part of the Czech state-owned holding Skoda Plzen. When Skoda Plzen was privatised in 2003, the GNS license agreement was remade with the new owner Appian (who owned Appian then is not clear), and then again in 2004, when Skoda JS was sold by Appian to its present owner OMZ.
GNS’s commitment to Skoda JS has remained firm throughout these changes in ownership. Indeed, the relationship has survived multiple criminal investigations into transactions associated with the triumvirs and their shared business partners, including such quirky little outfits as CEEI, the offshore piece of paper owned by God knows who that CEZ paid EUR60 million to build a spent nuclear fuel dump at Temelin in 2008 and this in spite of the fact that CEEI’s only qualification was a licence agreement with GNS to the know-how for an equivalent dump in Bavaria, built incidentally for half the price paid by CEZ. For details, see Jiri Kovar and his handicap
Apparently, it makes no difference to the German cask maker to whom it licenses its nuclear know-how, be it the Russian state or a shell operation run out of the office of Russia’s honorary consul to the Principality of Lichtenstein (who has since died). But then why should it matter? After all, the important thing is that the casks do not leak.
Czech nuclear waste is stored in German casks made by a Russian state firm.
OMZ’s Skoda JS (owned by the Russian state-controlled Gazprom Bank) announced this week that it had been awarded yet another contract by CEZ to supply an additional 100 Castor 1000/19 spent nuclear fuel casks between 2018 and 2035. The value of the deal is around EUR100 million.
These casks are in fact manufactured under licence. The owner of the technology is the German firm GNS, Europe’s leading manufacturer of such containers. What percentage of the value of this latest deal between CEZ and Skoda JS goes into the pockets of the German licensor is unknown. In all cases, the contract marks the continuation of a long and profitable relationship between these triumvirs of nuclear waste.
Skoda JS has been making GNS casks for CEZ since 2001, when Skoda JS was still a part of the Czech state-owned holding Skoda Plzen. When Skoda Plzen was privatised in 2003, the GNS license agreement was remade with the new owner Appian (who owned Appian then is not clear), and then again in 2004, when Skoda JS was sold by Appian to its present owner OMZ.
GNS’s commitment to Skoda JS has remained firm throughout these changes in ownership. Indeed, the relationship has survived multiple criminal investigations into transactions associated with the triumvirs and their shared business partners, including such quirky little outfits as CEEI, the offshore piece of paper owned by God knows who that CEZ paid EUR60 million to build a spent nuclear fuel dump at Temelin in 2008 and this in spite of the fact that CEEI’s only qualification was a licence agreement with GNS to the know-how for an equivalent dump in Bavaria, built incidentally for half the price paid by CEZ. For details, see Jiri Kovar and his handicap
Apparently, it makes no difference to the German cask maker to whom it licenses its nuclear know-how, be it the Russian state or a shell operation run out of the office of Russia’s honorary consul to the Principality of Lichtenstein (who has since died). But then why should it matter? After all, the important thing is that the casks do not leak.
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