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Who is in charge here? The Dukovany II nuclear power plant and the challenge of governing large infrastructure projects
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| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Recenzovaný odborný článek |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Energy Research & Social Science |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626002380?via%3Dihub |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104767 |
| Klíčová slova | Nuclear energy; Project governance; Megaprojects; Institutional capacity; Dukovany II; European energy policy |
| Přiložené soubory | |
| Popis | European governments increasingly present nuclear power as essential for decarbonization and energy security, yet the gap between political ambition and actual delivery remains wide. We argue that this gap is best understood as a problem of project governance: the institutional design through which authority, responsibility, and decision-making capacity are distributed across actors involved in nuclear megaprojects. Czechia's Dukovany II project, one of the few active tests of Europe's proclaimed nuclear revival, provides a critical case. Drawing on megaproject scholarship and 17 interviews with senior figures from industry, public administration, and the expert community, we examine how governance arrangements shape the project's current state and future trajectory. We show that governance is fragmented and contested: key actors disagree on who exercises leadership, while simultaneously lacking the capacity and experience required to advance the project. This fragmentation is rooted in the entanglement of state institutions with the partially state-owned utility ČEZ, which blurs accountability and anchors decision-making in the status quo. As a result, project governance generates contradictory directives: simultaneous demands for speed and caution, a formally transparent procurement process with opaque outcomes, and industrial localization targets that exceed implementation capacity. We conclude that without governance arrangements that clearly allocate authority, align incentives, and match the complexity of nuclear delivery, Europe's nuclear revival is unlikely to materialize. |
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