The Czech Republic surprised many last week when it announced on July 17 that it will award South Korea the country’s biggest-ever contract to build up to four new nuclear reactors.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) beat France‘s EDF in a tender launched in 2022 to build a new reactor at the Dukovany power plant in the center of the country.
“The Korean bid was better in all criteria assessed,” Fiala told reporters, adding that Prague has decided to build two units at Dukovany “for now.”
