As European Commission officials struggled to defend their decision to allow Hungary to skirt public tender requirements and award a multi-billion euro contract to Russia’s state-owned nuclear power company, a major U.S.-based energy company said Friday that it wanted the work but was denied the opportunity to bid.
Westinghouse Electric Company, which is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of nuclear reactors, said that it could have met Hungary’s order for two new reactors and prepared eagerly to submit a bid, but was then stunned to learn in 2014 that Budapest had awarded the deal on a sole-source basis to Kremlin-owned …read more
Source: European Voice
