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By Albin Sybera CEZ, the Czech Republic’s state-controlled energy group, has chosen the UK’s Rolls Royce as its partner to develop small modular reactors (SMRs). The decision is a blow to rival bidders Westinghouse and GE Hitachi of the US. Westinghouse was also a failed bidder for the €16bn tender to build two new nuclear reactors at the Dukovany nuclear power plant site, in what will be Czechia’s largest investment project in history. Westinghouse and France’s EDF have each filed complaints with the Czech anti-trust office (UOHS) over the selection of KHNP as the winner of the Dukovany tende…

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