French president Emmanuel Macron and Czech government officials discussed increased nuclear cooperation between the two countries during a visit by Macron to the Czech capital Prague on 5 March.

The talks included the use of French EPR reactor technology for new nuclear construction in the Czech Republic, Alexis Dutertre, the European counsellor to the French president, said on his LinkedIn page on 5 March.

The Czech government announced on 31 January that Westinghouse had been excluded from the Czech Republic’s new nuclear construction tender, leaving only EDF and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power in the ongoing competition to supply one or more reactors at the country’s two existing nuclear stations, Dukovany and Temelín.