The end of October was the deadline for vendors to submit bids to build two new reactors in the Czech Republic. AtomStoyExport's bid was based on what it calls the MIR-1200 design.
Czech utility CEZ will not officially reveal the identities of bidders until it has reviewed the bids and found them to conform to specifications. This is expected to take a 'few months', but two bidders have annouced their involvement already: US-based Westinghouse, and a consortium of AtomStroyExport and Gidropress of Russia with Skoda of the Czech Republic.
Westinghouse put in a bid based on its AP1000 pressurized water reactor (PWR), planned for the USA and under construction in China.
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