But as this week's Temelin blockade dramatically demonstrates, the Web offers anti-nuclear activists a powerful new medium for communicating their concerns directly to the public. The Temelin Web site is being updated several times each day, with print quality photos, reports from participants, and other details. An English language version of the site is available in text-only format as well as with full graphics. Four years behind schedule and many millions of dollars over budget, the plant has recently become the focus of renewed debate both within the Czech Republic and internationally. While a leader of the Czech opposition party has condemned the plant as a bad investment and is seeking a local public referendum to decide the plant's fate, representatives of the Czech electric utility have claimed that protest organizers invited violent anarchists from Germany to participate in the blockade.
Protesters hope to stop all construction work on the plant during the week.
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