The Netherlands is talking to “three potential and interested suppliers” to build two new nuclear power plants, energy minister Rob Jetten said on Thursday (29 June) in a letter to parliament, according to Dutch news agency ANP.

Reports in the Netherlands said the three are the US company Westinghouse, the French state-owned company EDF and South Korea’s Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP). There was no mention of two other major nuclear plant suppliers – Russia’s state corporation Rosatom and China’s state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation.

Earlier this year Jetten said construction of new reactors “will play an important role in the CO2-free electricity system”.