US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has filed an appeal with the Czech anti-monopoly office to protest the decision by state power company ČEZ to choose Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) as the preferred bidder for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Dukovany nuclear power station.
The Czech government announced in July that KHNP had won the lucrative public tender – said to be worth about $18bn (€16bn) – to build at least two nuclear reactors with the first unit scheduled to be online by 2036.
KHNP beat France’s state power company EDF in the tender, which was launched in 2022. The Prague government said in January that a bid by Westinghouse did not meet its conditions.
Russia’s Rosatom and China’s China General Nuclear were excluded from the tender on security grounds.