CEZ starting early talks with bidders for new nuclear power unit

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Czech utility CEZ will start talks with bidders for a multi-billion dollar project to build a new unit at its Dukovany nuclear power plant sooner than expected, a CEZ official said on Tuesday. Clarification discussions will begin this week, rather than in April, with France's EDF, South Korea's KHNP, and U.S.-Canadian group Westinghouse Electric, CEZ board member Tomas Pleskac said on Twitter. CEZ expects final bids around the middle of September, which could be marginally earlier than an end-September date revealed when CEZ announced bidders in November last year.