"The Canadians have entered the race to win a multibillion-pound project to build up to six nuclear reactors in Britain, The Times has learnt.
SNC-Lavalin, Canada’s largest engineering group, has teamed up with Japan’s Hitachi to bid for the Horizon joint venture, which owns two vacant reactor sites in Anglesey and Gloucestershire.
E.ON and RWE, the German energy groups, pulled out of the venture in March after politicians in Berlin decided to scrap domestic nuclear power in the wake of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Final bids were due in yesterday and the winner is set to be announced within the next three weeks according to Industry sources.
Hitachi has put forward its Advanced Boiling Water Reactor design which SNC-Lavalin would build and operate on the two sites.
However it faces stiff competition from two Chinese state-backed consortiums Toshiba Westinghouse the..."