BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia‘s controversial Mochovce nuclear power station, whose startup has sparked outrage by neighbouring Austria, reached full output on Friday. Slovakia activated the first reactor at Mochovce — the country‘s second nuclear power plant — in June, sparking sharp protests from environmentalists and the Vienna government which had called for a postponement, saying the plant was unsafe. The head of Mochovce‘s International Relations Department, Rastislav Petrech, told Reuters the reactor will go through a series of tests during first days of running at full capacity. „We are now at 90-percent output and will go up to 100 percent. But tests will still continue,“ Petrech said. In recent months, Mochovce has been the subject of heated exchanges between Slovakia and Austria, whose border lies 120 k (75 miles) from the plant. Austria is fiercely opposed to nuclear power and claims the station is potentially unsafe. The Mochovce plant was originally built to a Soviet design but was upgraded on the basis of International Atomic Energy Agency recommendations using Western technology. But Austria still disputes that the plant is up to acceptable standards. The plant will have to pass a special six-day period of running at full production output without any interruption in the near future before it is allowed to start the so-called trial period, Petrech said. However, Mochovce has already been supplying electricity to the national grid since July when the first reactor was connected to the network. Mochovce‘s second reactor is expected to begin operating sometime before September 1999. The first two Mochovce units, when running on full stream, would cover all Slovakia‘s energy import needs, which currently account for 14 percent of Slovak electricity consumption.