They include French nuclear group Areva, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and reactor builder Westinghouse.
French public-sector entities, with a 95% stake in Areva, have put off fully privatizing the investment.
The first, Mr Sarkozy's favourite, is to force Areva, a profitable firm, to take over Alstom.
Both Areva and Westinghouse are said to be looking at joint bids with separate Chinese developers.
Areva and the French government are also aggressively selling French nuclear know-how to other countries, especially China.
The French government owns 90% of Areva and wants a larger share of the nuclear energy world market.
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Mr Mollier worked for a subsidiary of a company called Areva Group, producing metals for use in constructing nuclear reactors.
She is betting big on the U.S. Areva is building a nuclear power plant component factory with Northrup Grumman in Virginia.
The French nuclear giant Areva bought a company that taps the biggest nuclear energy source in the solar system: the sun.
Anne Lauvergeon, Areva's impressive boss, is fiercely opposed to this, as it would dash her hopes of taking Areva public this year.
Mr Sarkozy's second plan is for Areva to take on Alstom's trains and trams as well as its transmission and distribution assets.
In bulls' eyes Areva's tiny float makes it all the more desirable.
Bertrand Barre, with the government-owned company Areva, the world's largest builder of nuclear power stations, says the next generation will be even safer.
Areva has implemented a plan to stop radioactive waste rock and scrap metal from getting into the local community, but the problem is clear.
Areva controls one of the most lucrative uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, a province accounting for 30% of global uranium production.
But there are still a number of hurdles to be cleared before energy supplier EDF and the nuclear engineering firm Areva can begin construction.
Two other competing systems, pre-treatment by a nuclear waste technology firm Kurion and fine removal by energy conglomerate Areva, cleaned the other four.
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Cook, senior vice president of Operational Excellence and Innovation, AREVA Inc.
In July it was announced the Areva group and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC) group were to bid for the Horizon project, which includes Wylfa B.
Now, if Areva wanted to harm Siemens reputation or make it less attractive to Rosatom, what better way than to demonstrate the unreliability of its control system software?
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The last new reactor design to be agreed was in December last year for energy firms EDF and Areva, for sites at Hinkley Point, Somerset, and Sizewell at Suffolk.
Cameco, France's Areva and Britain's Rio Tinto among them control 60% of the world's uranium supply, so he pondered if they understood that the rising prices weren't a blip.
Areva bought the Mountain View, Calif. company Ausra, a company that has developed a system of reflectors that concentrates and directs sunlight to create steam and spin a turbine.
Nearly 80% of France's electricity is produced by the country's 59 nuclear reactors, and a French company, Areva, is one of the world's foremost builders of nuclear power plants.
Desafio Espanol stayed five ahead of fifth-place Victory Challenge of Sweden with three matches to sail, while the Swedes won their duel against France's Areva Challenge by 35 seconds.
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Areva would buy the panels for its hybrid solar power plant, though it is unclear how exactly Areva plants to integrate the electricity-generating panels with its solar-concentrating mirrors and steam system.
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If the French government gets its way, as it so often does in such matters, Areva will, alas, be forced into an arranged marriage and Ms Lauvergeon will probably move on.
She declined to give details, but the plant is being developed by Areva Solar, the division made up largely of the solar thermal company Ausra that Areva bought in March.
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