 The power station required an area of 150 hectares and was to have two or four VVER-1000 reactors, producing 1000 MWe each and also providing heating for the Hradec Králové-Pardubice agglomeration, and for Prague (using a 67 km long steam pipeline).Construction was to begin in 1996 and the reactors to be activated between 2004–2008.The cost was estimated to be 60 billion (109) Kčs.