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Nuclear building dispute in Czech Republic

Czech nuclear tender dispute: Areva wins some breathing space Ft.com November 20, 2012 by beyondbrics The Czech authorities have temporarily blocked the state power company CEZ from signing a contract to build two nuclear reactors while they consider an appeal from France’s Areva against its disqualification from the tender.

The order from the Office for the Protection of Competition (UOHS) is not the body blow to the tender that Areva, angry at its exclusion, is trying to engineer.

But it injects more uncertainty into a process that was knocked sideways by CEZ’s surprise decision last month to drop Areva, leaving only Toshiba’s US subsidiary Westinghouse and a Czech-Russian consortium to contest the estimated €8bn-$10bn project for two reactors at the Temelin plant….. http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/11/20/czech-nuclear-tender-dispute-areva-wins-some-breathing-space/#axzz2CsZBwCx5

November 21, 2012 - Posted by | general

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