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Septembre 2010 / Financial Times

France : EDF and Areva forced to re-evaluate after losing bid



By Peggy Hollinger

The shock came just a few days before Christmas, and for many involved in France’s bid to clinch the world’s biggest nuclear contract, the after-effects have still not worn off.

Abu Dhabi’s decision last December to forgo France’s acknowledged experience in nuclear power generation and instead launch its $20bn reactor programme with market newcomer South Korea has left a sizeable dent in the country’s atomic ambitions.

After all, Abu Dhabi was the first big test of (...)