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The first unit of the controversial Czech nuclear reactor at Temelin was closed down overnight while tests were carried out on the operating equipment, the Czech news agency CTK said Saturday. The unit was expected to be reconnected to the network on Sunday, the agency said. The equipment has been tested once a month since an order in mid-2006 from the Czech Republic's nuclear authority, according to the same source. The Temelin plant, which started service in 2000, has created fierce controversy in neighbouring Austria, which opted to close down its commercial nuclear power plants in 1978. Austrian protests centre on the safety of the plant, built according to an original Soviet design with Western security systems added on. Temelin is sited 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the Czech-Austrian border. Original plans for the plant counted on four reactors but this was scaled back to two. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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