A Russian-Czech joint venture competing to win the contract to build two new reactors in the Temelín nuclear power plant sees taking local contractors on board as a way to win the tender. Rosatom and the Czech based nuclear engineering company Škoda JS are to sign cooperation agreements with ten Czech and Slovak companies, writes the news server Czech Position. US-based Westinghouse and French Areva are competitors in the CZK 150bn tender to build the reactors for partially state-owned power company ČEZ site in South Bohemia. July 2 has been set as the deadline for the bids, with the winner to be announced by the end of 2013.
