18 Apr (NucNet): France’s Areva has withdrawn an appeal lodged with a Czech court over a decision in 2012 to disqualify it from the tender process to supply two new nuclear reactor units at the Temelín nuclear station.
The company said the decision was “the logical consequence” of the decision by state-owned Czech utility CEZ to cancel the tender process. CEZ cancelled the tender process earlier this month, blaming the European Union’s failure to clearly define long-term parameters for energy policy.
CEZ disqualified Areva from the process in September 2012 because it said the company’s bid failed to meet statutory requirements for building the new Temelín units.
The companies that made it into the final round of bidding were Russia’s state-owned Rosatom and Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse Electric Company, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp.
