23 July 2001 A joke in the Czech Republic asks when the Temelin power station will be completed: “In two years,” is the answer. The unfunny part is that they’ve been making the same joke for years.The largest construction project in Czech history, Temelin has consumed an estimated 100 billion crowns ($2.6 billion) and has yet to be completed. The […]

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