EDF has filed a complaint with the European Union competition regulator over a Czech utility’s decision to pick a South Korean state-owned group as a preferred bidder for the construction of two reactors at the Dukovany nuclear site.
EDF said in a statement that it wants to ensure that Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s (KHNP) offer to ČEZ “respects fundamental European principles, laws and regulations”.
The French state utility, which owns and operates France’s fleet of 56 commercial nuclear power plants, lost the Czech tender against the South Korean group earlier this year.
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