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Czech minister ‘disappointed’ by Temelin nuclear power bids

PRAGUE, May 24 (Reuters) – Bids submitted for the expansion of the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant have been disappointing, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek was quoted as saying in a newspaper on Friday.

Westinghouse, a unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp, has taken the lead in competition with a consortium led by Russia’s Atomstroyexport in the tender competition to build two new units at Temelin with a capacity of more than 1,000 megawatts.

Temelin is owned by state-controlled power utility CEZ

‘I must say that offers of both bidder surprised us very unpleasantly in terms of price,’ Kalousek is quoted as saying in the newspaper, Hospodarske Noviny.

French group Areva has been excluded from the tendering but has appealed.

 

(Reporting by Jana Mlcochova; Editing by Greg Mahlich) 

 

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