As the Associated Press reminds, KHNP won the lucrative public tender last year. The South Korean company then defeated the competitive offer of the French EDF.
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Two new reactors will be built at the existing Dukovana power plant as part of an attempt to nomit the country from fossil fuels. As the Associated Press explains, the agreement between the dominant Energy Company CEZ, in which the Czech state has most of the shares, and the South Korean company is scheduled for Wednesday.
EDF questioned the signing of a contract in the District Court in the second largest Czech city of Brno on Friday. This took place how the Czech antitrust office rejected his complaint regarding the tender.
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The court stated that the contract could not be signed before issuing a decision in the EDF casebecause then it would not be possible to change it, even if the French company won. As the Associated Press points out, It is not known when this decision may occur.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that in his opinion the tender was “correct and lawful.” CEZ stated that the Korean offer was better and the tender was transparent and honest.
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Two new reactors will complement four 510-megawat Dukovana blocks, which were completed in the 1980s. The government estimated that each of them would cost about 200 billion crowns (over $ 9 billion).
It is expected that the first new reactor will be launched to test until 2036 and the second about two years later.
