i-Nuclear update: Areva confirms bid for Horizon, but Westinghouse, GEH, Rosatom remain coy

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Areva confirms bid for Horizon, but Westinghouse, GEH, Rosatom remain coy by I-Nuclear French nuclear conglomerate Areva has now confirmed it will bid to buy the UK’s Horizon Nuclear Power from its German owners, but Westinghouse, General Electric Hitachi and Rosatom, to various degrees, remain coy on their own plans. An Areva spokesman confirmed to i-NUCLEAR July 12 that it will put forward a bid for Horizon, which owns two sites for new reactors in the UK and has done a lot of predevelopment work on the sites before abandoning its UK nuclear plans. That work included investigating the construction of both the Westinghouse AP1000 and the Areva EPR reactors.