London (Platts)--25Apr2006
                               Areva confirmed that it submitted an eight bid to Chinese customers earlier this month, but declined to reveal any details of its offer to build four EPR units, two each at Sanmen and Yangjiang. (The company reportedly had offered a seventh bid in early February.)                         

Company spokesman Charles Hufnagel denied reports that Areva was divided on its policy concerning technology transfer to Chinese entities, saying the Areva group's "commercial policy ... is, in China as everywhere else, united and coordinated." On April 21, Areva Chief Executive Anne Lauvergeon told the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris that "[i]t is untrue to say that we refuse to transfer technologies" to China.
                                "But we refuse to sell technologies without building" the reactors, she said. Lauvergeon was responding to press reports in March suggesting Areva had lost the Chinese reactor bid to Westinghouse because the latter was willing to sell just the blueprints for its AP1000 design. Westinghouse officials have denied the reports.
source:Platts
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