Activities

Czech Nuclear Insurance Pool is a voluntary association of companies insuring and / or reinsuring risks connected with operation of nuclear installations and sources of ionising radiation. Such nuclear installations are according to the Atomic Act (ACT No. 18/1997 Coll, on Peaseful Utilisation of Nuclear Energy and Ionising Radiation) constructions and operating units containing a nuclear reactor utilising a fission chain reaction, facilities for the production, processing, storage and siposal fo nuclear materials, repositories of radioactive waste and facilities for the storage of radioactive waste.

The Pool currently participates on insurance and reinsurance of more than 386 nuclear power plants throughout the world, including both Czech nuclear power plants - Dukovany NPP and Temelín NPP.

An international teams of engineers executes regular surveys of both of our nuclear power plants. Results of the surveys serve to assess the risks particularly for the use of insurers. Operators of power plants use recommendations of insurance experts in order to reduce the risk of operation of the nuclear installations.

Czech Nuclear Insurance Pool operates within a worldwide community of national nuclear insurance pools and is actively contributing to the development of business and technical co-operation.

The business exchange comprises of active (i.e. assumed) and passive (i.e. ceded) reinsurance business with more than twenty foreign national pools.

The technical co-operation provides exchange of information, arranging of surveys on nuclear power plants as well as organization of assessment of insured losses.