The timeline, which also targets a construction start in November 2029, held firm at a joint review meeting in Seoul from Nov. 9 to 12 with project owner Elektrarna Dukovany II (EDU II), KHNP said.
About 30 EDU II officials and 70 members of Team Korea, the Korean group behind the project, checked licensing, design and project management.
KHNP broke off construction contract talks with a Daewoo Engineering & Construction-Doosan Enerbility consortium on Oct. 29 after a dispute over costs and risk-sharing.
It plans to name a new builder through a tender by July 2027. Doosan's separate deal to supply the reactors and turbines is unaffected.
"We are smoothly carrying out key tasks such as design and technical documentation needed for the Czech licensing application," said Choi Il-kyung, KHNP's executive vice president in charge of business.
EDU II Chief Executive Petr Zavodsky said he was confident major milestones would be met by April 2027 at the latest.
The two sides also reviewed plans to train plant operators and discussed a larger role for Czech companies. KHNP will put about 200 auxiliary equipment items out to tender from the end of this year through 2030, and aims to sign a cooling tower construction contract in the first half of 2027.
The Dukovany deal, signed in June 2025 and valued at 407 billion koruna ($18.4 billion), is KHNP's first nuclear plant project in Europe. It calls for two 1,000-megawatt APR1000 reactors, with the first slated to begin trial operation by 2036.
Copyright ⓒ Aju Press All rights reserved.
