Czech Republic Targets 2012 For Selection Of Temelin-3 And -4 Supplier
Written by NucNet
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Three nuclear vendors have qualified to submit formal offers for the construction of units 3 and 4 at the Temelin nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic, with selection of the successful supplier scheduled for 2012.
Czech utility CEZ, which launched the public tender in August 2009, said today that all three vendors who submitted initial applications for the project had successfully complied with qualification requirements.
The three are Westinghouse Electric Corporation with its AP1000 reactor unit; Areva with its European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR1600); and a consortium comprising of Skoda, Atomstroyexport and Gidropress with the MIR (Modernised International Reactor) 1200 unit.
The Czech Republic has six operational reactor units – four VVER-440 units at the Dukovany nuclear plant and two VVER-1000 units at Temelin.
Temelin was originally conceived as a four-unit plant. In April 2009, local authorities in South Bohemia signed a contract with CEZ that cleared obstacles to the construction of Temelin-3 and -4, overturning a 2004 resolution blocking construction of the unit.
